Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asserted that thedefence situation in the country would have been different if the Indian AirForce had Rafale fighter jets. “Not one this side would have gone and noone on the other would have survived,” he added.
Addressing a rally here, the prime minister called upon theOpposition, without naming it, to use “common sense” when it speaksabout the Rafale jets.
“If the Indian Air Force had the Rafale today, thesituation would have been different, but some people do not have it in them tounderstand this,” Modi said, adding “When I say this, they questionthe Air Force strikes.”
The prime minister, who is on a two-day visit to his homestate, went on, “The nation agrees that the disease of terrorism has to beeliminated. I want to ask you, don’t you trust what our armed forces say?
“Should or should not everyone, including me, believein our armed forces without raising questions? We should be proud of our armedforces.”
Modi was addressing the rally after inaugurating a 750-bedannexe and PG hostel of the Guru Gobind Singh Hospital here.
He also laid the foundation stones of various developmentprojects in the Saurashtra region. IANS