New Delhi, May 11 -- Recalling the "historic event" of December 1971 when Pakistan surrendered before India, and Bangladesh was created, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh on Saturday said that even the presence of US Seventh Fleet in the Bay of Bengal did not "scare" then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

In a post on microblogging platform X, Ramesh wrote, "Now it's time to remember that historic event from the second week of December 1971, which is clearly recorded in official documents."

He added, "The Nixon-Kissinger duo sent a nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed U.S. Seventh Fleet naval task force to the Bay of Bengal, led by the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise. But even this did not scare Indira Gandhi, and on December 16, 1971, Pakistan surren...