Many surgical strikes during UPA regime, we never claimed credit: Manmohan

The former PM alleges BJP was racking up the national security issue to draw people's attention away from Modi government's failure on the economic front

Multiple surgical strike took place in the UPA regime, but for Congress military operations were meant for giving befitting reply to anti-India forces and not a vote garnering exercises, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in an interview.

"In the past 70 years, a government in power never had to hide behind the valour of our armed forces. Such attempts to politicise our forces are shameful and unacceptable," he told Hindustan Times.

On PM Modi's comparison with Indira Gandhi, he said there cannot be any comparison between Indira Gandhi's greatness and the pettiness of the present regime. " Neither Mrs