During a rally in Gandhinagar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared “Operation Sindoor” a “decisive action,” stating that India’s precision strikes destroyed nine terrorist hideouts in Pakistan within 22 minutes. He emphasized that the entire operation was recorded on camera to preempt demands for proof.
Modi asserted that India is a “land of the brave” and that terror attacks can no longer be considered “proxy wars” given the events post-May 6. He cited the state honors, including Pakistan’s flag on coffins and army salutes, given to terrorists whose funerals were held after May 6. This, he argued, proves that terrorist activities are “a well-planned war strategy” rather than a proxy conflict. He warned that Pakistan, being “already at war,” would “receive the response accordingly,” while reiterating India’s desire for peace and progress.
The Prime Minister also criticized the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, highlighting how it led to the neglect of dams in Jammu and Kashmir, preventing desilting and keeping bottom gates shut for 60 years. This, he claimed, reduced reservoir capacities from 100% to a mere 2% or 3%. He took a jab at Pakistan, noting that merely opening “small gates for cleaning the dams” had already caused “a flood there,” implying a significant impact on the neighboring country.
Recalling the 1947 partition, PM Modi lamented that Pakistan, with the help of terrorists, annexed a part of Kashmir. He suggested that if these terrorists had been eliminated then and Sardar Patel’s advice had been heeded, the 75-year-long series of terrorist incidents in India would have been avoided.
Modi affirmed the country’s resolve to eliminate terrorism, using the analogy of a thorn causing constant pain to the body, emphasizing the decision to “remove that thorn.” He further stated that Pakistan, unable to defeat India in conventional warfare (having been defeated three times), resorted to a “proxy war,” to which India had previously been tolerant.
