evidence: In an exclusive interview to Hindustan Times , Singh said "multiple surgical strikes" were done during the tenure of the United Progressive Alliance government which he headed but alleged that never before had an Indian government needed to ride on the achievements of the army as it is doing now. [...] His claim of previous surgical strikes echoes one made by Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, who in an Udaipur rally before the Rajastan Assembly election in 2018 had said that the Army had conducted three surgical strikes while the UPA was in power but had kept those operations a secret. [...] ‘Many surgical strikes during UPA’s tenure’, says former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.