Union External Affairs Dr S Jaishankar hit out at the Opposition over the issue of China raised in Rajya Sabha during the Operation Sindoor Debate.
Jaishankar said, “There are ‘China Gurus’. One of them is the member sitting in front of me (Jairam Ramesh), whose affection for China is so great, ‘unhone ek sandhi bana li thi India aur China ki, Chindia’… I may lack knowledge about China because I did not learn about China through the Olympics… Some people gained their knowledge of China during their visit to the Olympics. Let’s not discuss who they met or what they signed… They also took private tuition at their homes from the Chinese Ambassador… ‘China Gurus’ say that Pakistan and China have close ties… We are aware of it and are tackling it… However, saying that these ties developed overnight, this means they were sleeping during the history class.”
On communication with the US during Operation Sindoor, EAM Dr S Jaishankar said, “On May 9, US Vice President Vance called up the Prime Minister to warn him that a Pakistani attack would come in the next few hours. PM made it very clear that if anything happened, it would get an appropriate response… That happened, and our response disabled the Pakistani air defence systems and made their airfields inoperable… We got calls saying that Pakistan is ready to stop fighting… The response we gave to anybody who spoke to us was that the Pakistani side has to make a request, and that request has to come through the DGMO… There was no leader anywhere in the world who asked India to stop its operations… There was no linkage with trade… There were no calls between our Prime Minister and President Trump.”
