New Delhi : Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah participated in a special discussion in the Rajya Sabha today on ‘Operation Sindoor’ – India’s strong, successful and decisive response to the Pahalgam terror attack.
Replying to the discussion, Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation expressed his condolences to the families of the innocent civilians killed in the Pahalgam attack. He said that the country’s security forces have increased India’s honour through Operation Sindoor and Operation Mahadev. He also congratulated Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Ji and said that he showed the political will to give a befitting reply to Pakistan in accordance with the wishes of the 140 crore people of the country.
Shri Shah said that under Operation Mahadev, on 28th July, three Lashkar terrorists – Suleman, Afghan and Jibran – were killed by our security forces in Kashmir and this has confirmed that Lashkar was behind the Pahalgam attack. He said that Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi killed the masters of the terrorists through ‘Operation Sindoor’ and in ‘Operation Mahadev’, the terrorists involved in the Pahalgam attack were wiped out.
Union Home Minister said that through Operation Sindoor and Operation Mahadev, the security forces of India under the leadership of the Prime Minister have given the most precise and prompt response ever given in the wake of any terror attack in the world. He said that TRF, an outfit of Lashkar, had taken responsibility for the Pahalgam attack and he himself had gone there on the same day and the security situation was reviewed and arrangements were made to ensure that those terrorists are stopped from fleeing the country.
Union Home Minister told the House that three rifles were recovered from the three terrorists killed in Operation Mahadev – one 19 M-4 carbine and two AK 47. He said that after the Pahalgam attack, NIA had recovered emptied cartridges from Baisaran valley and those were examined in the Forensic Science Lab. When these terrorists were killed, the rifles recovered from them were tested and after forensic matching, it was found with hundred percent surety that these three rifles were used in the Pahalgam attack. It was also found that 44 of these cartridges were of 19 M-4 carbines and 25 cartridges were of AK 47 rifles. Shri Shah said that the NIA conducted a thorough investigation and took statements of 1055 people and made sketches of the suspects and the three people who had given them shelter were also arrested.
Shri Shah said that our agencies made continuous efforts from 22 May to 22 July to confirm the information about the presence of terrorists. He said that on 22 July we got success and the presence of terrorists was confirmed. He said that under the leadership of 4 Para of the Army, CRPF and Jammu Kashmir Police personnel together surrounded the terrorists and in the operation conducted on 28 July, all the three terrorists who killed our innocent citizens were eliminated.
Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation said that former Home Minister who hails from opposition government is trying to save Pakistan and Lashkar by demanding proof that “terrorists came from Pakistan”. He said that the opposition party will not hesitate to support Pakistan and save Lashkar for its vote bank politics. He said that the opposition party blames that we do not know anything except naming the operation with names having religious connotations. He said that the opposition does not know that Har Har Mahadev is not just a slogan in a religion but it was the war cry of Shivaji Maharaj’s army when he fought against the Mughals. Shri Shah said that this is a symbol of India, the retaliation given against the attack on India’s sovereignty and the encroachment of India’s borders. He said that this is a war cry coming from the minds of the soldiers of our army and it should not be seen from the Hindu-Muslim point of view.
Shri Amit Shah said that killing these terrorists was not so easy. He said that for 22 days, CRPF, Army and Jammu and Kashmir Police personnel chased these terrorists in extremely difficult conditions and killed them by living on food sent by drones. He said that the people of the entire country are seeing that the priority of the opposition party is not the security of the country, but politics, their priority is not to end terrorism but their vote bank politics, their priority is not the security of our borders but the politics of secularism and appeasement. He said that the Pahalgam attack took place on 22 April 2025 at 1 pm and he himself had reached Srinagar before evening. He said that the next day he went to pay tribute to those who died and recalled the day as one which he can never forget ever in his life. He said that the heinous crime of selectively killing people in front of their families in the name of religion had never happened till date. Union Home Minister said that the terrorists wanted to give the message that they will never let Kashmir be free from terrorism. He said that today from this House, I want to give this message to the terrorists that Kashmir will be free from terrorism and this is the resolution of Narendra Modi ji’s government.
Union Home Minister said that Prime Minister Modi Ji had said in Bihar that whatever ground is left with the terrorists will be destroyed and today their training camps, headquarters and launch pads have been razed to the ground. He said that the Prime Minister had said that the masters of the terrorists will not be spared and today those who send the terrorists have also been exterminated by our forces. He said that the Prime Minister had said that even the terrorists will not be spared and under Operation Mahadev, those three terrorists were eliminated. Shri Shah said that in a way, every sentence said by Modi Ji were fulfilled by our Army, Air Force, Navy, all Central Armed Police Forces and Jammu Kashmir Police, who gave the terrorists a severe punishment.