Minister Kiren Rijiju used the Hindu epic Ramayana to explain India’s action against Pakistan on Monday, ahead of the Operation Sindoor debate in Parliament.
Rijiju, the minister for parliamentary affairs, shared on X, “When Ravan crossed the Laxman Rekha, Lanka burned. When Pakistan crossed the red lines drawn by India, terrorist camps faced the fire!”
The BJP leader’s post was made barely two hours before the Lok Sabha, which is currently in session for the monsoon season, was scheduled to debate India’s military response to the Pahalgam terror assault, Operation Sindoor. Alongside it, he shared a song in the voice of Kailash Kher, whose lyrics stated that the operation was for India’s “aan, baan, swabhimaan” (dignity, pride, personal dignity).
PM Narendra Modi dedicates Operation Sindoor to “every mother, sister, and daughter of the country” in the opening line of the one-minute short, which is delivered in Hindi. The extraordinary debate in the Lok Sabha is scheduled for Monday for sixteen hours. On Tuesday, July 29, the Rajya Sabha will debate the matter for a comparable amount of time.
Since the military action in May, the opposition has been demanding this discussion of the operation and the diplomacy surrounding it, including a special session of Parliament. It was a reaction to a terror assault that took 26 lives, the majority of them in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, on April 22.
Although the opposition has emphasized its “complete support to the operation in national interest,” US President Donald Trump’s repeated assertions that he used trade as a stick for both India and Pakistan to get the ceasefire done—”stopped a potential nuclear war”—have drawn criticism. According to Indian leaders, the nation does not base its decisions on outside influences.
Following a week of disruptions by the Congress and other opposition parties during the monsoon session, which started on July 21, the discussion was agreed upon. Important figures from the opposition and the BJP-led ruling NDA are now expected to take part. Rajnath Singh, the minister of defense, is probably going to start the discussion in the Lok Sabha.
According to PTI, BJP MPs Anurag Thakur and Nishikant Dubey, Union home minister Amit Shah, and external affairs minister S Jaishankar are also anticipated to speak. In addition to potentially interfering in the Lok Sabha debate, Prime Minister Narendra Modi might also do so in the Rajya Sabha.