Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during the discussion on Operation Sindoor in the Lok Sabha, during the Monsoon Session of Parliament, in New Delhi.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the first time on Tuesday countered US President Donald Trump’s claim on brokering peace between India and Pakistan by asserting that “no leader of any country asked Bharat to stop the operation.”
Modi’s clarification came following Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi’s dare to rebut Trump’s oft-repeated claim about engineering a truce between India and Pakistan after Operation Sindoor started.
In his one-hour-and-forty-minutes long reply to the debate on Operation Sindoor in the Lok Sabha, the PM, without naming the US President, asserted twice that no country in the world stopped India from taking action in its defence against terrorism.
Modi recalled a conversation on May 9, while Operation Sindoor was underway, with US Vice President JD Vance. “On May 9, US Vice President tried calling me for hours but I was busy with meeting with armed forces. Later, when I returned the call, the Vice President warned me that Pakistan is going for a big strike. My reply to him was that, if Pakistan has that intention, then it will invite heavy costs,” Modi said before the House.
“I told him, goli ka jawab gole se denge (we will respond to bullets with shells),” he stated.
The PM’s response came at the end of a 16-hour-long debate during which the Opposition pressed him to respond to Trump’s claims. Rahul Gandhi said that if Modi had “even 50 per cent of courage which former PM Indira Gandhi had, he would give a public rebuttal to Trump who has said more than 26 times that he engineered a ceasefire between India and Pakistan”.
The PM accused Congress of speaking the language of Pakistan since the beginning — from surgical strike to Balakot air strike and now in Operation Sindoor. “Congress gave a “clean chit” to Pakistan,” Modi stated.
Nuclear threat
He also said India called out Pakistan’s nuclear threat and showed the world that “we will not bow down to nuclear blackmail”.
“Our operations range from Sindoor to Sindhu (Indus Waters Treaty)… Pakistan knows they have to pay a huge price for any misadventure. Terror attacks were launched earlier and the masterminds of attacks knew nothing would happen, but now they know India will come for them.”
Rahul Gandhi said that Modi was using the armed forces to protect his image after the Pahalgam attack. “The nation is above your politics, your image and your PR.. do not sacrifice the nation and armed forces for your political interests,” Congress leader said in the Lok Sabha.
Published on July 29, 2025
