‘Can happen to India’: Chavan slams Centre for silence on Venezuela; claims govt ‘scared of US’

NEW DELHI: Former Maharashtra main curate Prithviraj Chavan connected Tuesday stirred a contention aft helium criticised the authorities for not taking a basal aft the US captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, saying specified an incidental could besides hap to India.“Whatever has happened successful Venezuela is against the UN Charter. An elected president has been kidnapped. It's a precise sedate interest that it could hap to immoderate different state tomorrow. Tomorrow it tin hap to India,” Chavan said.

“India has not spoken arsenic usual, not taken a basal connected the Venezuela matter. Russia and China person taken a basal and criticised what America has done. The aforesaid happening happened successful the Ukraine war. We did not instrumentality immoderate side.

We did not instrumentality a basal connected the Israel-Hamas matter, and present present we are, truthful frightened of Americans that we are not adjacent trying to criticise what has happened,” helium added.This comes aft Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were captured successful Caracas and flown retired of the state connected Saturday successful a associated cognition involving quality agencies and US instrumentality enforcement.Subsequently, the ministry of outer affairs reiterated India’s enactment for the information and well-being of radical successful Venezuela arsenic the concern successful the state remains tense amid US strikes.

“Recent developments successful Venezuela are a substance of heavy concern. We are intimately monitoring the evolving situation,” the MEA said successful a statement.“We telephone upon each acrophobic to code issues peacefully done dialogue, ensuring bid and stableness successful the region. The Embassy of India successful Caracas is successful interaction with members of the Indian assemblage and volition proceed to supply each imaginable assistance,” it added.Meanwhile, this is not the archetypal clip Chavan has made headlines for arguable remarks.

Earlier successful December, Chavan claimed that India was defeated connected the archetypal time of Operation Sindoor and that Indian craft were changeable down during the four-day conflict.“On the archetypal time (of Operation Sindoor), we were wholly defeated. In the half-hour aerial engagement that took spot connected the 7th, we were afloat defeated, whether radical judge it oregon not. Indian craft were changeable down. The Air Force was wholly grounded, and not a azygous craft flew. If immoderate craft had taken disconnected from Gwalior, Bathinda, oregon Sirsa, determination was a precocious probability of being changeable down by Pakistan, which is wherefore the Air Force was afloat grounded,” the Congress person said.Later, Chavan refused to apologise for his arguable connection and said, “Why volition I apologise? It is retired of the question. The Constitution gives maine the close to inquire questions.”