“Our jawans are not cannon fodder to be martyred at will,” Gandhi said on Twitter and demanded that each Indian jawan be given body armour for protection.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi
Body armour “needs to be made available to every soldier,” he said. Citing a media report quoting CRPF Director General Kuldeep Singh as saying there was no intelligence failure in the operation and an equal number of ultras were killed, Gandhi said, “If there was no intelligence failure then a 1:1 death ratio means it was a poorly designed and incompetently executed operation.”
Meanwhile, Telangana police have sounded an alert and intensified combing operations in the bordering areas of the state in view of the Chhattisgarh attack.
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