New Delhi, July 31 -- BJP member Anurag Thakur on Wednesday claimed in the Lok Sabha that Indira Gandhi had sought the US' intervention to stop the war with Pakistan in 1971 when she was the prime minister.
Thakur said Indian soldiers won the 1971 war, but "someone else" was declared the Iron Lady. He claimed that the war was won on the battlefield but lost at the negotiation table.
"If you dig a little deeper in history, the layers start unravelling. The then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had written to US President Nixon. It appears as though a supplicant was pleading before the US president," Thakur said, making a Zero Hour mention in theLok Sabha.
He read out a letter from Gandhi to Nixon wherein she urged the US president to persuade...