Modi gives wrong information about Field Marshall Cariappa & General Thimayya
Kalburgi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is busy in campaigning for Karnataka Assembly polls these days, has give the wrong information about India’s two greatest military heroes Field Marshall Cariappa & General Thimayya while addressing an election rally at Kalburgi.
He said that India won the 1948 war under General Thimaya, but after the war, the man who saved Kashmir was insulted by Nehru and the then defence minister, Krishna Menon.
Incidentally, the first war India fought after Independence in 1947-48 was under General Francis Bucher. General Thimayya led the Army in the operations in Kashmir and went on to become the Army Chief in 1957.
Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala took on the PM and said, "Modi ji, Better start reading from a paper to brush up your knowledge of history. In 1947, K'ntaka pride Gen Thimayya was the High Commissioner to U.K. between 1947-52 & not Army Chief."
After realising that he had jumbled the facts, Surjewala deleted his tweet and put up a new one. He said, "Modi ji, Better start reading from a paper to brush up your knowledge of history. Gen Thimayya became Army Chief only on 8th May 1957 and not 1947 as you alleged. V K Krishna Menon was ambassador to the UK between 1947-52 & not Defence Minister as you alleged."
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
