Sachin Pilot hit out at BJP leader Amit Malviya for claiming that his father Rajesh Pilot dropped bombs on Mizoram in 1966 as an Indian Air Force pilot.
Malviya shared a clip from a TV news channel and posted that 'Rajesh Pilot and Suresh Kalmadi were flying the Indian Air Force planes which dropped bombs on Mizoram's capital Aizawl on March 5, 1966. Later, both of them became Congress MPs and later ministers. Indira Gandhi felicitated those conducting airstrikes on fellow citizens in the northeast through political opportunities.'
Countering Malviya, Sachin Pilot wrote that 'You have the wrong dates, wrong facts…Yes, as an Indian Air Force pilot, my late father did drop bombs. But that was in erstwhile East Pakistan during the 1971 Indo-Pak war and not as you claim, on Mizoram on the 5th of March 1966. He was commissioned into the IAF only on 29th October 1966! (Certificate attached) Jai hind and a happy Independence Day.'