Observing that Operation Sindoor was far from over, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday (May 29, 2025) that Pakistan has nothing positive to offer to the world, and since its creation, the country has only “nurtured terrorism.”
“We destroyed their terror hideouts; which Pakistan could not have imagined ever being possible,” the Prime Minister said while addressing a public meeting at Alipurduar in West Bengal.
Mr. Modi said that soon after the partition of the country in 1947, Pakistan launched terror strikes against India. The Prime Minister also touched on the Bangladesh War of Liberation in 1971 and said that nobody can forget the Pakistani Army’s campaign of rape and murder in Bangladesh.
“Terror and genocide are the biggest expertise of the Pakistani Army. The Pakistani Army knows defeat is certain if there is a full blown war; that is why they take the support of terrorists,” the Prime Minister said.
Anger among the people
Mr. Modi said that there was immense anger in the country and also among the people of West Bengal over the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22. The Prime Minister asserted that Pakistan has already been hit “three times inside its home.”
“After the Pahalgam attack, India has told the world that if there is a terrorist attack on India, the enemy will have to pay a heavy price for it. Pakistan should understand that we have entered their house and hit them three times,” he said.
The Prime Minister also invoked the symbolism of Sindoor Khela, a cultural practice in West Bengal. He said that he was speaking from the “sacred land of Sindoor Khela. The terrorists dared to wipe the sindoor from the foreheads of our sisters. But our brave soldiers made them realise the power of that sindoor.”
Mr. Modi said that the country worships “Shakti and Mahisasurmardini (Goddess Durga)” and added that from “the land of the Bengal tiger, this is a declaration by 140 crore Indians that Operation Sindoor is far from over.”
Published – May 30, 2025 01:28 am IST
