New Delhi. Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar is often surrounded by controversies regarding his statements. Now once again he has said something that has created some uproar. This time, while referring to China, he used the word ‘alleged’ for the attack in 1962. Which means that China did not attack, but it is alleged.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) strongly attacked this statement of Aiyar and called it a ‘shameless attempt’ of revisionism. However, after this, Mani Shankar Aiyar clarified that he had used this ‘alleged’ word ‘by mistake’ and he apologizes for it.
In fact, a book ‘Nehru’s First Recruits’ was released at the ‘Foreign Correspondents Club’. Mani Shankar Aiyar also put forth his point in this program, a video of which has also surfaced. In this, Aiyar narrated an incident and said, ‘… In October 1962, the Chinese allegedly invaded India.’
BJP has strongly attacked this statement of Mani Shankar Aiyar. BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya also gave a befitting reply to Congress regarding this. He posted on ‘X’, ‘Mani Shankar Aiyar, while speaking at FCC during the release of the book named Nehru’s First Recruits, called the Chinese invasion in 1962 ‘alleged’. This is a shameless attempt at ‘revisionism’.’
