Lok Sabha Highlights: PM Modi praises Rajnath Singh, Jaishankar for Op Sindoor speeches

BJP MP Kamaljeet Sehrawat said, "... The way the opposition is raising questions (on Operation Sindoor) is unfortunate... The opposition seems to be standing with Pakistan... Today, Rahul Gandhi did not clap when the army was talked about, even after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh asked him twice. The opposition works to lower the morale of the country's army..." (ANI)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to social media platform X to praise the speeches given by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. Sharing Singh's speech, PM Modi said that he had provided “an insightful perspective on the success of India’s security apparatus and the courage of our armed forces”.

Modi also praised EAM Jaishankar's speech as “outstanding”. “The speech by EAM Dr. Jaishankar Ji was outstanding. He highlighted how the world has clearly heard India’s perspective on fighting the menace of terrorism through Operation Sindoor,” the Prime Minister said in a post on X.

During the discussion on Operation Sindoor in the Lok Sabha, AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi says, “Does your conscience allow you to ask the family members of the people who were killed in Baisaran to watch India's cricket match with Pakistan?... We are stopping 80% of Pakistan's water, saying that water and blood will not flow together. Will you play a cricket match?”

"My conscience does not allow me to watch that match. Does this government have the courage to call the 25 dead people and say we have taken revenge in Operation Sindoor, now you watch the match with Pakistan. It is a matter of great regret... Who did Pahalgam? We have 7.5 lakh army and central paramilitary force. From where did these four rats enter and kill our Indian citizens? On whom will accountability be fixed?" Owaisi said.

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Parliament Monsoon Session live: During the discussion on Operation Sindoor in the Lok Sabha, BJP MP Anurag Thakur said "there was competition among the leaders of Congress as to who should come forward as the closest friend and dearest to Pakistan."

"In the interview given by a former Home Minister yesterday, he said- If Pakistan did not have a hand in this, how can you say that the terrorists came from Pakistan?... Sometimes they call it Hindu terrorism, sometimes they come to defend Pakistan. There are so many big advocates of Pakistan in the Congress party today that Pakistan defends itself later, and Congress leaders come to defend them. The Pakistani army and the Pakistani government are using the brothers of Lashkar-e-Rahul in their favour... Although it is INC, but from their statements and actions, it looks like it has become Islamabad National Congress...," Anurag Thakur said.

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BJP MP Anurag Thakur said in Lok Sabha, "Let me tell you, the leader you talk about, twice the people of the country did not even give him enough votes to become the leader of the opposition... He has become LoB from LoP. LoB stands for Leader Opposing Bharat. Opposing India and the Prime Minister is his agenda. I don't know whether he becomes the poster boy of Congress or not, but he has become the poster boy of Pakistan's propaganda."

BJP MP Anurag Thakur said in Lok Sabha that India fought on two and a half fronts, two that everyone know about and the remaining half, that is "Rahul Occupied Congress".

"Look at the social media, in the last two months, Rahul Occupied Congress has made disgusting and insulting cartoons against the Prime Minister and the Indian Army...Rahul Occupied Congress called the Army chief a roadside goon. Rahul Gandhi should apologise to the entire country and the Indian Army," he added.

BJP MP Anurag Thakur said "Pakistan used to say 'bleed India with a thousand cuts', but it couldn't withstand a fight with our Army for even 48 hours."

"The Opposition must remind Rahul Gandhi that our Army strikes where it hurts the most," he added.

BJP MP Anurag Thakur, speaking during Operation Sindoor debate in Lok Sabha, said, "Ask Pakistan how catastrophic our Indian missiles were. It's been more than 2 months, but Rahim Khan Airbase is still non-functional."

BJP MP Anurag Thakur said in his speech during the special debate on Operation Sindoor in Lok Sabha, “Of all the opposition MPs who have spoken here till now, not even one MP has stood up and said that in this terrorist attack, people were asked about his religion and asked to recite Kalma, their pants were removed and then they were killed. Tell me what pain did the Opposition MPs have in saying this? When the Defence Minister was discussing the achievements of the Indian Army, there was no applause, no one was thumping the table.”

NCP(SP) MP Supriya Sule slammed Tejasvi Surya after he cited former PM Jawaharlal Nehru in his speech in the Lok Sabha.

"I would like to tell Tejasvi Surya and put it on record, he said that Jawaharlal Nehruji, the first Prime Minister of India, never encouraged the defence forces and we have never done anything, this is the first time India has done exceptionally well in its armed forces. He has not only insulted thousands and lakhs of Indian force and armies and their families who have stood so that you and I can be safe. I object to the statement that he has made," she said.

Sule added, "Tejasvi Surya, if you haven't read history, then read it... When it comes to the country, the country comes first, then the state, then the party, then the family... When we got a call from Kiren Rijiju, he just told me on the phone that Supriya, you will have to give 10 days for the country... It was the greatness of the Prime Minister that he showed faith in the opposition leaders to lead the delegations... At the all-party meeting, the Congress party was the first to say that the Congress party and the entire opposition will stand with Narendra Modi's government with full strength."

LJP (Ram Vilas) MP Shambhavi Choudhary said in Lok Sabha, "This new India is the one that walks on the path shown by Gautam Buddha and Mahavir Ji for peace, but if it is a matter of national security and national interest, then it also knows how to lift the bow of Lord Shri Ram and the Sudarshan Chakra of Shri Krishna...The unfortunate thing is that even today there are people in our country who feel more sad for Palestine than Pahalgam because it does not benefit their politics."

External affairs minister S Jaishankar said, Yes, I went to China to make our opposition very clear about de-escalation, trade restrictions and terrorism. I did not go to China for the Olympics. I did not go to China for secret agreements. The House should know that people were watching the Olympics when China was issuing stapled visas for people from Arunachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir."

"We were asked, why did you stop at this time? Why did you not go further? This question is being asked by people who, after 26/11, felt that the best action was inaction," said Jaishankar in Lok Sabha.

"...26/11 happened in November 2008. What was the reaction? The reaction was Sharm-el-Sheikh. In Sharm-el-Sheikh, the then government and the Pakistani Prime Minister agreed that terrorism is a main threat to both countries. Now, today, people are saying America is hyphenating you, Russia is hyphenating you, that is what I heard Deepender Hooda ji say. You are hyphenating yourself. You did not need a foreign country to say please link India to Pakistan...And worst of all, they accepted a reference to Balochistan in that," he added.

EAM S Jaishankar told Lok Sabha, "We had seven parliamentary delegations which went to 33 countries. Some comments were made about those delegations. I have to tell Arvind Savant ji that you are completely misinformed. Those delegations were received with great honour. Please look at the tweets of people sitting next to you. These seven delegations did the nation proud. Every member, members of opposition, members of the government, public spirited citizens, retired diplomats, they were able to explain to the whole world our posture of zero tolerance against terrorism."

External affairs minister S Jaishankar told Lok Sabha during the special discussion on Operation Sindoor, "From 25th April till the commencement of Operation Sindoor, there were a number of phone calls and conversations. At my level, there were 27 calls; at PM Modi's level, almost 20 calls. About 35-40 letters of support came in, and what we tried to do was to create a narrative, prepare the diplomacy for the launch of Operation Sindoor... There are 193 nations in the United Nations, only 3 countries apart from Pakistan opposed Operation Sindoor."

"We have just come back from Maldives. The day before yesterday, PM Modi was the Guest of Honour at their Independence Day. It is the same country that, during their (Congress) time, forced an Indian company to leave an airport, that country today has invited India to build two new airports," S Jaishankar said during his speech in the Lok Sabha.

EAM S Jaishankar said that the leaders of Operation Sindoor, including Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, made India proud across the globe.

Union home minister Amit Shah was once again forced to intervene during S Jaishankar's speech and slam at the Opposition as they disrupted the external affairs ministers. He asked, “Does it suit the Opposition interrupt the speech from the treasury side?”

“When their Speakers were talking, we were listening to them patiently. I will inform you tomorrow how many lies have been told by them. Now they are not able to listen to the truth... When such an important issue is being discussed, and the EAM is speaking, does it look nice that the opposition is disturbing him? Speaker sir, you should make them understand or else we will also not be able to make our members understand anything later,” Shah said.

As Opposition members began sloganeering and raising their voices during EAM S Jaishankar's, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla asked them to take their seats, reminding them that “You only asked such questions, so now you have to hear the answers.”

EAM S Jaishankar said in the Parliament that the focus of India's diplomacy was the UN Security Council.

"The challenge for us was that at this particular point, Pakistan is a member of the Security Council and we are not... Our goals in the Security Council were two: 1- to get an endorsement from the Security Council of the need for accountability, and 2- to bring to justice those who perpetrated this attack," he told the Lok Sabha.

"I am glad to say that if you look at the Security Council statement of 25th April, the members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack. They affirmed that terrorism in all its forms and manifestations constitutes one of the most serious threats to international peace and security. And most importantly, the Council underlined the need to hold the perpetrators, organisers, financers and sponsors of this reprehensible act of terrorism accountable and bring them to justice," he added.

Union home minister Amit Shah burst out at the Opposition as they tried to disrupt EAM S Jaishankar's speech while he was answering their questions over US intervention in India-Pakistan ceasefire. He said, "I have an objection that they (Opposition) don't have faith in an Indian Foreign Minister but they have faith in some other country. I can understand the importance of foreign in their party. But this doesn't mean that all the things of their party should be imposed here in the House. This is the reason why they are sitting there (opposition benches), and will remain sitting there for the next 20 years.."

Addressing the questions raised by opposition parties over US involvement in the India-Pakistan ceasefire, Jaishankar clarified that Vice President JD Vance had called Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 9, wherein the PM made it very clear that if an attack happens, India will hit back. "India foiled that massive attack. Our response was delivered," he said.

Further, Jaishankar noted that the Centre had received phone calls on May 10, saying Pakistan was ready to cease the fire. "India said that if Pakistan is ready, the request needs to come from them, at DGMO level," he added.

Jaishankar clarified that at no point, was there any intervention from the US. "There was no phone call between PM Modi and (Donald) Trump in this period."

EAM S Jaishankar clarified the international support received by India following the Pahalgam attack. He said that the QUAD unequivocally condemned terrorism and mentioned the Pahalgam attack in its statement.

BRICS, which has China, Iran and Russia as members, also condemned the attack, he added.

"If India is attacked, and a country says we condemn cross-border terrorism, it is clear what they mean," Jaishankar said.

EAM S Jaishankar said in the Lok Sabha during a special debate on Operation Sindoor, "It was very clear that, after the first set of steps approved by the Cabinet Committee on Security, India's response to the Pahalgam attack would not stop there. Our task from a diplomatic perspective, from a foreign policy approach, was to shape the global understanding of the Pahalgam attack."

"What we tried to do was to bring out to the international community Pakistan's long-standing use of cross-border terrorism. We highlighted the history of terrorism in Pakistan and how this particular attack was meant to target the economy of Jammu and Kashmir and to sow communal discord among the people of India," he added.