Amit Shah's 250 casualty figure shall be taken as 'ashanka': V K Singh

Union minister V K Singh said Tuesday BJP president Amit Shah's "more than 250" casualty figure after the air strike on a Jaish camp in Pakistan was based on his "ashanka" (suspicion) on the basis of intelligence gathered about people in the buildings hit by the IAF.

"Whenever such attacks take place, no witness is present on the ground. He cannot be present on the ground. You make an estimate on your intelligence gathering, which you have done earlier," the Minister of State for External Affairs said.

"Your intelligence is that these are the number of buildings. So many buildings have been hit. It's an estimate," Singh said on the figure given in the aftermath of the Balakot air strike.

"He (Amit Shah) is saying it is ashanka (suspected to have been killed). Let us take it as ashanka," he told reporters when asked how can the BJP president give the number of 250 casualties.

Singh trashed the Congress demand for evidence on the air strike and the number of casualties as "waste of ...