evidence: Rahul Gandhi said the Manmohan Singh govt carried out three surgical strikes but the Congress didn't tell the world about it because it did not want to politicise the armed forces. [...] Rahul Gandhi said the reason why the UPA government did not disclose the surgical strike was because "we did not want to politicise the armed forces". [...] When asked about what was achieved by the surgical strikes carried out during Manmohan Singh's tenure, Rahul Gandhi said, "I won't talk about what happened. But the targets that were supposed to be hit were hit successfully."