Letter to BS: Separating Balakot strike from poll politics not possible

If Modi had not attacked quickly, his party and he would have faced an angry electorate

I found the edit “Off target” (March 5) quite intriguing. India’s diplomatic victory over Pakistan in the context of the Balakot air strike is as much due to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s incessant efforts to build close relationship with nations that are of strategic importance to it (including Saudi Arabia) as being a democracy. In search of accuracy in the number of Pakistanis killed, the Opposition is missing the strategic significance of established facts. That Indian Air Force penetrated Pakistan territory and that Pakistan’s retaliation was feeble and was confined to sending a F-16 plane to Indian borders put to