Cross-border operations had happened in past too: Hooda

Jaipur: Retired Lieutenant General D S Hooda said on Saturday that cross-border operations had happened in the past too but disapproved of politicising the matter.
Responding to a question on the Congress party’s claim that six surgical strikes had been carried out during its rule too, Hooda told reporters here, “Certainly cross-border operations have been carried out by the Indian Army in the past too. I am not aware of exact dates and areas.”
The Congress last Thursday came out with a list of six surgical strikes carried out during the UPA rule, asserting that it never tried to take political advantage from military operations as was being done by the BJP.
The Congress released the list at a press conference after BJP leader Arun Jaitley took a jibe at the opposition party, saying its surgical strikes were “invisible and unknown”.