evidence: Hours after the publication of an interview of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with a national daily on Thursday, 2 May, Congress, in a press conference, claimed that six surgical strikes were conducted under the UPA government, adding, that the party never politicised the army related matter. [...] "Since questions are being raised, therefore, we will just say it now. BJP has alleged that before the current government, no surgical strikes have happened. Under Manmohan Singh government, six surgical strikes happened but we never bragged about it."Rajeev Shukla Providing a sequence of the surgical strikes during UPA tenure, Shukla said that on 19 June 2008, a military operation was carried in the Bhattal Sector in Poonch, while another was carried on 1 September 2011 in Sharda Sector across the Neelam River Valley in Kel (Pakistan-administered Kashmir).