“Congress speaks like Pakistan, again: Former Maha CM Prithviraj Chavan claims India was ‘defeated’ on day 1 of Operation Sindoor, Air Force was ‘completely grounded’ ”, OpIndia, December 17, 2025
“The Congress party, notorious for pushing petty political objectives ahead of the interests of the country has once again come under fire for displaying its perverse fondness for the terror state of Pakistan. Prithviraj Chavan, a senior Congress leader and former chief minister of Maharashtra, alleged that Indian planes were not only shot down during “Operation Sindoor” but the country was even beaten on the first day of the intense conflict.
“On the first day, we were completely defeated. In the half-hour aerial engagement that took place on the 7th, we were fully defeated, whether people accept it or not. Indian aircraft were shot down. The Air Force was completely grounded, and not a single aircraft flew. If any aircraft had taken off from Gwalior, Bathinda, or Sirsa, there was a high probability of being shot down by Pakistan, which is why the Air Force was fully grounded,” he insisted with the conviction of an official spokesperson of the Islamic Republic.
Interestingly, a report from a United States Commission last month revealed the propaganda surrounding India’s loss of jets. It emphasised how China initiated a disinformation campaign to hinder the sale of French Rafale aircraft in favor of its own J-35s, utilising artificial intelligence to generate fake visuals of supposed debris from the aircraft……”
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