'India Defeated On Day 1 Of Operation Sindoor': Congress Leader Prithviraj Chavan's Shocker

Last Updated:December 16, 2025, 19:59 IST

Former Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan also alleged that the India Air Force was "completely grounded" due to the high probability of an aircraft being shot down by Pakistan

Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan's comments on Operation Sindoor have sparked a major political controversy. (Image: ANI)

Congress veteran and former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan has made a shocking claim about ‘Operation Sindoor’, India’s military response to the Pahalgam terror attack.

Chavan alleged that India was completely defeated on the “very first day" of Operation Sindoor, stressing that the air force was “completely grounded" due to the high probability of an aircraft being shot down by Pakistan.

“On the first day (of Operation Sindoor), 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," Chavan said during a press conference in Pune.

His comments have sparked a major political controversy, but he did not stop there. There were more controversial statements to follow. The BJP accused him for “parroting" Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi’s “views" on the four-day military action by India on “terror targets" in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK).

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