Congress condemns Nair's remarks that UPA regime delayed Chandrayaan-2

The Chandrayaan-2 mission was to be originally launched in 2012, but was delayed due to policy difference under the UPA-2 government, former ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair was quoted as saying to news agency ANI on Wednesday.

"Though the delay is not a serious issue, Chandrayaan-1 was launched 10 years back and a follow-up mission Chandrayaan-2 was originally planned to be launched in 2012. But due to policy differences under the UPA 2 government, it was delayed," he said on Friday.

"Under the NDA government, Modi Ji (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) has given maximum thrust to space mission projects under the leadership of Dr Sivan, the current Chairperson of ISRO. Several designs have been made in the past few months. I would like to congratulate ISRO for getting ready such a complicated satellite," he added.