Was Shimla Agreement signed under US pressure: Nishikant Dubey questions former PM Indira Gandhi

New Delhi [India], June 23 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Nishikant Dubey targeted former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, alleging that she signed the Shimla Agreement between India and Pakistan under the pressure of the United States.
Sharing a document of a Rajya Sabha debate on 'X', Nishikant Dubey questioned why Indian governed 5000 square mile territory was given to Pakistan by India's "iron lady".
The BJP MP further queried why 57 Indian soldiers killed in Pakistan's jail dispute were returning the 93000 Pakistani soldiers, who had surrendered after the 1971 war.
Nishikant Dubey mentioned that former Defence Minister Mahavir Tyagi raised these questions, but former Indian PM Indira Gandhi left them unanswered.

शिमला समझौता आयरन लेडी इंदिरा गांधी जी ने क्या अमेरिका के दबाव में किया?
1. आयरन लेडी ने भारत का क़ब्ज़ा किया हुआ 5000 स्क्वायर माईल भूभाग पाकिस्तान को क्यों दिया?
2. पाकिस्तान के पास हमारा 30 हज़ार स्क्वायर माईल भूभाग पाकिस्तानी के पास किसके दबाव में छोड़ा?
3. 93 हज़ार सैनिक… pic.twitter.com/uUEK9aft3b

— Dr Nishikant Dubey (@nishikant_dubey) June 23, 2025

Earlier on Sunday, Nishikant Dubey slammed Rahul Gandhi, questioning the motives of the Congress leader to encourage learning English rather than local languages while also alluding to the "hypocrisy" of opposing the National Education Police (NEP) 2020 for language choice, stating that the 1986 NEP had similar goals.
"Rahul Gandhi ji, your investigative advisor is hell bent on destroying you. This is the education policy of 1986 given by your father to the country. in this, your father is promising the country to promote Hindi, teach the Sanskrit language and translate English into regional languages. This same education policy is almost in place now. Students should also grow with regional languages, changes in this have been made by Prime Minister Modi ji in 2020," Dubey said in a post on X in Hindi.
He said that while countries such as Russia, China, France, Germany, Japan and Arab countries were "proud of their language," the former Congress president is proud of English ", like slaves."
"Russia, China, France, Germany, Arab countries, Japan, Korea all are proud of their language and it is developed, why are you proud of English like slaves, we are proud of Santhali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Malayalam, Hindi, Sanskrit," Dubey's post read.
Dubey shared screenshots purportedly of the 1986 NEP, which stated "the policy emphasises the adoption of regional languages as the media of instruction at the university stage; vigorous effort at implementation of the three language- formula; improvement in the linguistic competencies of students at different stages of education; provision of facilities for the study of English and other foreign languages; development of Hindi as the link language....teaching of Sanskrit at the university stage..." (ANI)