During a special discussion in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday (July 29, 2025), on ‘India’s strong, successful and decisive ‘Operation Sindoor’ in response to terrorist attack in Pahalgam’, Opposition MPs asked the Union government to explain why the country had accepted a ceasefire with Pakistan when Pakistan had been on the backfoot.
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The “political leadership” of the country had failed to defend the “military leadership”, and no effort had been made to expose the “Pakistan-China nexus” at global forums, Opposition members alleged. They also questioned the silence of the BJP over a Madhya Pradesh Minister’s controversial comments on Colonel Sofiya Qureshi, and the social media attack on Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and his daughter.
Ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) members and Ministers countered the arguments. Operation Sindoor had proved that giving a befitting answer to terrorism was the “new normal” for India, unlike in the past Congress governments that “did not retaliate” even after the terrorist attack in November 2008, they said.
India had accepted no third party intervention, and there had been no pressure from foreign powers to announce the ceasefire, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, who initiated the debate, said.
