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<\/div>\nSachin Pilot hit out at Amit Malviya, saying “You have wrong dates, facts”. (FILE)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Congress leader Sachin Pilot on Tuesday hit out at BJP IT department head Amit Malviya for claiming that his father Rajesh Pilot dropped bombs as an air force pilot in Mizoram in March 1966, saying the facts and dates are wrong as he was commissioned into the force in October that year.<\/p>\n
In a post on X, Mr Malviya had claimed that Rajesh Pilot and Suresh Kalmadi were flying the Indian Air Force planes that bombed Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram, on March 5, 1966.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Later both became MPs on Congress tickets and ministers in the government. It is clear that Indira Gandhi gave a place in politics as a reward, gave respect to those who carried out air raids on their own people in the Northeast,” Mr Malviya had said in the post in Hindi.<\/p>\n
Hitting out at the BJP leader, Mr Pilot said, “@amitmalviya – You have the wrong dates, wrong facts\u2026Yes, as an Indian Air Force pilot, my late father did drop bombs. But that was on erstwhile East Pakistan during the 1971 Indo-Pak war and not as you claim, on Mizoram on the 5th of March 1966.” “He was commissioned into the IAF only on 29th October 1966! (Certificate attached). Jai hind and a happy Independence Day,” Mr Pilot said on X and shared the certificate according to which Rajesh Pilot was commissioned in the Indian Air Force on October 29, 1966.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n.@amitmalviya<\/a> – You have the wrong dates, wrong facts\u2026
Yes, as an Indian Air Force pilot, my late father did drop bombs. But that was on erstwhile East Pakistan during the 1971 Indo-Pak war and not as you claim, on Mizoram on the 5th of March 1966.
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