India fully prepared to give befitting reply to any attack

Nirmala Sitharaman, the Defense Minister, asserted on Wednesday that India was fully ready to give a befitting reply to any attack and that the country was in safe hands.

Responding to questions about Indian air force releasing its two Sukhoi-30 fighter jets on Monday after a Pakistani drone was sighted along the LoC, Sitharaman told the reporters that, “I want to give this assurance that India and its forces are fully prepared and this is an example. We are ready to give a befitting reply to any attack like this. India is in safe hands.”

IAF had scrambled two Sukhoi-30 fighter jets after sighting a Pakistani drone along the Indo-Pak border a few days ago in the Khemkaran sector in Punjab. The drone however soon retreated to the Pakistani side.

Tensions have been running high between the two countries India and Pakistan following a suicide attack on an Indian paramilitary convoy (CRPF) last month, which killed 40 soldiers in Indian-administered Kashmir region of Pulwama.

Meanwhile, according to sources, The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is mulling to field Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman from Ahmedabad (East) constituency in the Lok Sabha elections 2019.

In May 2016, Sitharaman was one of the 12 candidates nominated by the BJP to contest the Rajya Sabha elections held in 2016. She successfully contested her seat from Karnataka On September 3, 2017, she was appointed as Defence Minister — only the second woman after Indira Gandhi to hold post.

 

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