{"id":28391,"date":"2019-02-18T22:20:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=28391"},"modified":"2019-03-15T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T10:30:30","slug":"general-g-d-bakshi-makes-false-claim-about-mehbooba-mufti-and-2014-budgam-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/general-g-d-bakshi-makes-false-claim-about-mehbooba-mufti-and-2014-budgam-firing\/","title":{"rendered":"General G D Bakshi makes false claim about Mehbooba Mufti and 2014 Budgam firing"},"content":{"rendered":"

A video clip of India TV<\/em> editor-in-chief Rajat Sharma on his prime time news show has been shared massively on social media. The video clip is two minutes and twenty seconds long, and features Sharma and retired Indian army officer and TV panelist Major General G D Bakshi. Puducherry governor Kiran Bedi is among those who have shared this extract from Sharma’s programme. Her tweet has been retweeted over 13100 times already.<\/p>\n

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Listen to this please. pic.twitter.com\/iC8Djq1a7B<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Kiran Bedi (@thekiranbedi) February 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rajat Sharma asks G D Bakshi how the explosive laden SUV which hit the CRPF convoy in Pulwama escaped scrutiny, to which the latter narrates an incident, and blames former J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti’s policies for having created this situation. The exchange between Sharma and Bakshi is as follows:<\/p>\n

Rajat Sharma: Mr. Bakshi, everyone is asking how the terrorist could manage to attack a convoy of 2500 jawans?<\/em><\/p>\n

Maj-Gen G D Bakshi: Rajat ji, it is very important for the peole of India to understand one thing: every morning, when convoys are on their way, road opening parties do road clearance for detecting explosives. This was an explosive laden car. Why was it not checked? There is a story behind this.<\/em><\/p>\n

During Mehbooba Mufti’s rule there were three army checkposts outside Srinagar. Once, a Kashmiri gentleman had got angry as to why he is being checked, and crashed two barriers before a soldier opened fire after repeated warning, and he got killed. This led to a furore- why is the army harassing Kashmiris and resorting to atrocities, and Mehbooba Mufti ensured that the jawan who opened fire is today in Tihar jail. Then Army commander General Hooda had to issue a public apology and the barriers were removed. Today, if the car manages to pass through, WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? WILL MEHBOOBA MUFTI ANSWER THOSE 30 CORPSES AND FAMILIES?<\/em><\/p>\n

Rajat Sharma: Mehboob Mufti has expressed grief over the deaths of the jawans and has appealed for a solution?<\/em><\/p>\n

Gen Bakshi: This is adding salt to wounds. You get them killed, issue order saying no car will be checked. In Delhi, you and I cant escape road barriers but in a sensitive place like Srinagar, you prevent checking and send a jawan who does so to Tihar jail? Which jawan will have the courage to check? Who is responsible?<\/em><\/p>\n

On Facebook, this video clip has been shared by a page Presstitutes<\/em><\/a>, with the caption “Gen G D Bakshi gives the reason why SUV carrying 350kg explosives that hit the convoy was not checked”.\u00a0<\/em>The video has been viewed over 377,000 times and shared over 9600 times so far.<\/p>\n

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Gen G D Bakshi gives the reason why SUV carrying 350kg explosives that hit the convoy was not checked<\/p>\n

Posted by Presstitutes<\/a> on Sunday, February 17, 2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Several individual Facebook users<\/a> too have shared this video, as have Twitter users<\/a>.<\/p>\n