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Congress seeks privilege action against Rajnath Singh
The Daily Guardian
|July 01, 2026
The controversy over Rajnath Singh’s statement on Operation Sindoor took a fresh twist on Tuesday, with Congress MP K.C. Venugopal writing to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, seeking privilege proceedings against the Defence Minister for allegedly “misleading” Parliament by saying that “no Indian soldier died in the line of duty during the conflict with Pakistan” in May last year.
The row erupted days after the names of six armed forces personnel were inscribed on a wall at the National War Memorial in Delhi in tribute to the fallen soldiers. It marked the first time the government publicly disclosed their identities.
The Ministry of Defence later clarified that “certain posts circulating on social media” had sought to “misrepresent” Singh's address. It said the posts had “selectively quoted an isolated portion of the speech to falsely imply that the Defence Minister claimed that no Indian soldier lost his life during Operation Sindoor”.
This story is from the July 01, 2026 edition of The Daily Guardian.
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