Alka Lamba mistakenly calls 'Operation Sindoor' as 'Operation Blue Star'; BJP hits back

Alka Lamba

All India Mahila Congress president Alka Lamba faced the wrath of the BJP after she mistakenly called "Operation Sindoor" as "Operation Blue Star" during a press briefing at the AICC office in New Delhi.

"Sessions of Parliament should be called and both the Houses of the Parliament should be briefed on ‘Operation Blue Star’ by the government," Lamba said during the press conference.

Lamba criticised Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, accusing them of showing disregard for the victims and incidents of the Pahala attack while trying to claim credit for ‘Operation Sindoor’.

Congress's Alka Lamba wants full details on Operation Blue Star.Op Blue Star was when then PM Indra Gandhi ordered Military to Storm the Golden Temple in 1984.Meanwhile, the real operation happening now against terror is called 'Operation Sindoor'. pic.twitter.com/2o2cAiDwBc

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The event featured a video highlighting a controversial statement made by BJP MP Vijay Shah about Colonel Sophiya Qureshi.

Lamba also brought up remarks by Madhya Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Jagdish Devda, who had said that both the Indian armed forces and the nation bow before Prime Minister Narendra Modi for initiating ‘Operation Sindoor’ in retaliation for Pakistan’s terror strike.

However, she later realised and acknowledged the mistake that she had made. "The issues I raised in my press conference today were so serious that the leaders of the “bad-tongued party" BJP not only listened to me carefully, but also noted down every word. I thank them for this," Lamba said.

She added, "If I say something other than Operation Sindoor once, the BJP makes an issue out of that mistake – as if they have found an excuse to divert attention from the real issues and bite me (mosquito)."

BJP's Shehzaad Poonawala hot back at her and called it a "slop of mindset". "This is not ignorance It is mischief and deliberate Not slip of tongue but slip of mindset Undermine our forces is Congress objective Alka Lamba does it after Kharge ji, Manjunath , Channi and others.. Op Bluestar?" Poonawala wrote on X