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Army Won 1971 War, But Indira Gandhi Lost It: BJP MP
The New Indian Express Kalaburagi
|May 16, 2025
BJP general secretary and Rajya Sabha member Radha Mohan Das Agarwal said the credit for the 1971 war victory should be given to Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw and not to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Speaking to the media in Bengaluru on Thursday, the BJP leader said, "Our armed forces won the 1971 war, but Indira Gandhi lost it during the Simla Agreement with Pakistan in 1972. For five months, 93,000 Pakistani soldiers were treated like sons-in-law, 13,000 sq km of land was returned to Pakistan, and five crore Bangladeshis were not sent back, but India could not even bring back its soldiers who were in Pakistani custody," the BJP leader said.
This story is from the May 16, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Kalaburagi.
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