Sam Pitroda Who Criticised IAF’s Balakot Air Strike, Becomes Congress’ Campaign Monitoring Committee Chief

Senior Congress leader Sam Pitroda who had recently courted controversy by criticising the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) air strikes in Balakot, will be the party’s head of campaign monitoring committee, ANI has reported.

Other members of this committee include Pawan Khera, Rohan Gupta, Praveen Chakravarthi, Priyanka Chaturvedi, Divya Spandana and Manish Chatrath.

This committee would be responsible for monitoring publicity and campaigns being launched by the Rahul Gandhi led party.

Pitroda had recently courted huge controversy after he criticised the IAF air strikes by calling them the wrong approach.

He also made insensitive remarks with regards to the Pulwama terror attack by stating that terror attacks happen all the time.

Pitroda, formerly an engineer and an Advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on telecom policy, was answering an interview question regarding his views on the Balakot strikes.

He went on to question the truthfulness of Indian Air Force (IAF) assertion that Indian jets had destroyed Jaish-e-Mohammad’s terrorist camps in Pakistan. "I would like to know more as I have read in New York Times & other newspapers: what did we really attack, we really killed 300 people?" an ANI tweet had quoted Pitroda as saying.

These views were slammed by many including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.