According to a purported video of an event at the Foreign Correspondents Club this evening, Aiyar, while narrating an anecdote, said, ‘…In October 1962, the Chinese allegedly invaded India.’
New Delhi: Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar’s remarks using the word ‘alleged’ for the Chinese invasion in 1962 kicked up a political row late Tuesday with the BJP calling it a ‘brazen attempt at revisionism’.
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh pointed out that Aiyar had subsequently apologised ‘unreservedly’ for using the term ‘alleged invasion’ ‘mistakenly,’ and that the party distances itself from the ‘original phraseology’.
Ramesh also accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of giving a ‘clean chit’ to the Chinese for their incursions in May 2020.
According to a purported video of an event at the Foreign Correspondents Club this evening, Aiyar, while narrating an anecdote, said, ‘…In October 1962, the Chinese allegedly invaded India.’
Later, in a brief statement, Aiyar said, ‘I unreservedly apologise for having mistakenly used the word ‘alleged’ before ‘Chinese invasion’ at the Foreign Correspondents Club this evening.’
Aiyar, who has stoked controversies in the past with his comments, made the remarks at the launch of the book ‘Nehru’s First Recruits’.
BJP’s IT department head Amit Malviya slammed the Congress over Aiyar’s remarks.
‘Mani Shankar Aiyar, speaking at the FCC, during the launch of a book called Nehru’s First Recruits, refers to the Chinese invasion in 1962 as ‘alleged’. This is a brazen attempt at revisionism,’ the BJP leader said on X.