New Delhi: Hours after the irrepressible Donald Trump said that “five jets were shot down” during the four-day military conflict between India and Pakistan in May, post Operation Sindoor, Rahul Gandhi trained his gun on Narendra Modi.
“मोदी जी, 5 जहाज़ों का सच क्या है? देश को जानने का हक है! (Modi ji, what is the truth about the 5 ships? The country has the right to know!)” the Congress MP and Leader of Opposition questioned India’s Prime Minister, sharing a video clip where the US President reiterates for the umpteenth time his claims on stopping a potential India-Pakistan nuclear war after fighter planes being shot down.
Speaking at the White House during a dinner he hosted for Republican senators on Friday, Trump said,
“We stopped a lot of wars… these were serious wars… You had India, Pakistan that was going on.. in fact, planes were being shot out of the air… four or five. I think five jets were shot down. Actually, that was getting worse and worse, wasn’t it?”
Trump, however, did not specify whether the jets were lost by one of the countries or he was referring to combined losses.
मोदी जी, 5 जहाज़ों का सच क्या है?
देश को जानने का हक है! pic.twitter.com/mQeaGCz4wp
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) July 19, 2025
Congress general secretary-in-charge (Communications) Jairam Ramesh also slammed Modi, saying that “the Trump missile gets fired” for the 24th time with the same two messages, two days before the Monsoon Session of Parliament begins.
“The Prime Minister, who has had years of friendship and huglomacy with President Trump going back to ‘Howdy Modi’ in September 2019 and ‘Namaste Trump’ in February 2020, has to now himself make a clear and categorical statement in Parliament on what President Trump has been claiming over the past 70 days,” Ramesh demanded.
Congress and some other Opposition parties have been demanding a special Parliament session on Pahalgam terror attack, Operation Sindoor and the military conflict that followed.
The grand old party has now demanded that PM Modi must answer Trump’s India-Pakistan ‘ceasefire” claims in both Houses of Parliament during the Monsoon Session, which will begin on July 21.
Pakistan claimed downing three Rafales, without providing any evidence to substantiate such claims.
India’s Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan did admit that an unspecified number of its fighter jets were downed during the hostilities, but dismissed Pakistan’s claims of shooting down Rafales.
The CDS said that the losses were not important, but what mattered was the outcome of the operation.
Even Eric Trappier, CEO of Dassault Aviation, the French company that makes Rafale jets, called Pakistan’s claims “inaccurate.”
