Operation Sindoor: PM Modi delivered on promise of 'revenge beyond imagination' against terrorists

Sambit Patra addressing media on the ongoing India-Pakistan tensions. Pic/ PTI

The BJP claimed on Monday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi fulfilled his commitment of inflicting punishment beyond their imagination on the terrorists responsible for the Pahalgam terror strike and razing their safe havens.

While addressing a press conference on the ongoing India-Pakistan tensions, BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra provided details about the strikes on the terror infrastructure and the attack on the Pakistani air bases. He added that Pakistan lost "nine terror sites, 11 air bases, over 100 terrorists, 50 soldiers and its prestige".

As per PTI, the BJP MP also stated that PM Modi had vowed that India would take out terrorists in their homes and tear down the terror sites.
"Our armed forces' indomitable courage and PM Modi's decision have completely destroyed the terror sites." It was a promise by Modi," he said, adding that Operation Sindoor, which was launched on May 7, has achieved 100 per cent of its targets.

The Lok Sabha lawmaker further stated said that the prime minister had, during his public gathering in Bihar, assured citizens of fulfilling their desire to combat terrorism and had pledged to avenge the killing of 26 civilians, primarily tourists, in Pahalgam on April 22. Modi had pledged to exact retribution that would surpass the terrorists' wildest dreams, and has fulfilled his promise, added Patra.

The kind of military and non-military action India has taken under the operation is unprecedented and has sent a decisive message in its war against terrorism, the BJP MP stated.

Even Islamic countries such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE have backed out, and Pakistan stands isolated globally, Patra claimed. Moreover, he said that India has shown that no part of Pakistan is beyond New Delhi's reach.

India-Pakistan tensions: Operation Sindoor met 100 per cent target

Patra also went on to say that India can say with pride that Operation Sindoor met its target 100 per cent and lauded the national unity behind the armed forces' action.

Not only did India kill over 100 terrorists across nine terror sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, but its subsequent action in retaliation against Islamabad's response destroyed 11 air bases in the country, he said.

Stating that 50 Pakistani soldiers were killed in one of these airbase attacks, Patra claimed that it was the first time that a nation has destroyed a nuclear-powered nation's airbases. No other country would have carried out such precision attacks aimed at terrorists and their sites within a span of 23 minutes, he further emphasised.

He stated that for the first time, India carried out strikes in Pakistan's Punjab province, considered the heart of the country, effectively eliminating terrorists and their camps.

The BJP leader also warned that though the two nuclear neighbours have arrived at an understanding to stop military actions, India will break the agreement in case of future terror attacks.

He said that under PM Modi, the Indian government took unprecedented punitive actions, including the decision to put the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance. Pakistan depends so critically on the waters flowing from India that the neighbouring country's GDP and agriculture will plunge, and it will become even more fragile, he remarked.

"Operation Sindoor successfully dismantled terror hubs affiliated with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), and Hizbul Mujahideen," said Patra.
India, he added, had earlier tried to pressure Pakistan into taking action by giving it dossiers on evidence of terrorist activities emanating from its soil, as was the case after the Mumbai terror attack in 2008, but the neighbouring country paid little heed.

Meanwhile, the media also asked the MP about the trolling by right-wing activists against Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on social media platforms after the India and Pakistan ceasefire agreement was announced. To this, Patra said that his party respects everyone, be they armed forces or bureaucrats, associated with the operation.

He also added that social media is a tool, but it cannot be a basis for the country to decide its course of action.
Misri was forced to make his account on X private, restricting access to only confirmed followers, after he and his family members were targeted by trolls.
(With inputs from PTI)