No world leader told India to stop Op Sindoor, Cong shedding tears with terrorists: PM Modi

Rectified Nehru’s big blunder, kept Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance: Modi

30/07/2025

NEW DELHI, Jul 29: Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted on Tuesday that no world leader had told India to stop Operation Sindoor as he lashed out at the Congress for “importing issues from Pakistan” and said the opposition party is joining terrorists and their masterminds in shedding tears after the victorious Indian military action.
Replying to an over 16-hour discussion in Lok Sabha on the Pahalgam terror attack and Operation Sindoor, Modi rebutted the Opposition’s charge over US President Donald Trump’s repeated claims of mediating “ceasefire”, saying he had told US Vice President J D Vance on May 9 night that Pakistan will pay dearly for any attack on India.
In his 102-minute speech, the prime minister lauded India’s military action as a “vijayotsav” (victory celebration) and told the House amid cheers from the treasury benches that he was presenting the “stand of Bharat”.
“India destroyed Pakistan’s military strength between May 9 and May 10. Pakistan now clearly understands that India’s response will always get bigger and that India can do anything if it engages in any misadventure in future,” he said, emphasising that Operation Sindoor is continuing.
Modi said Vance called him up a few times but he was busy in meetings with the armed forces brass and returned the call later. “The Vice President told me that Pakistan is going to launch a big attack. I told him if this is Pakistan’s intention, then this will cost it dearly. We will respond with a bigger attack. We will fire cannonballs against their bullets.”
“No world leader asked India to stop its military operation,” he said.
India has made it clear that it will respond to terror on its own terms, won't tolerate nuclear blackmail and will treat terror sponsors and masterminds alike, he said.
No country stopped India from acting in its defence, PM Modi stressed, adding that only three of the 193 UN members spoke in favour of Pakistan, remarks which came soon after Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi claimed no country condemned Pakistan and cited Trump’s claims to question Modi’s leadership.
Modi then turned on the Congress. The opposition party has fallen to such a low that despite governing India for so long, it does not trust the country’s establishment and its trust is in fact guided by remote control in Pakistan, he said.
“The world supported us but, unfortunately, the valour of the armed forces did not receive support from the Congress,” he said
While India is surging to become “aatmanirbhar”, the Congress is becoming dependent on Pakistan for issues, he said.
After India hit the terror facilities, the Indian DGMO informed his Pakistani counterpart of the military action. India was also waiting for an opportunity to hit back, Modi said.
When Pakistan retaliated, the Indian armed forces taught it a lesson it will not forget for years, Modi said, adding that the neighbouring country was brought to its knees following Indian strikes in its different corners.
The prime minister cited comments of some Pakistanis, which appeared on social media, to stress on their shock at the Indian attack.
Their DGMO called up the Indian DGMO saying, "Bas karo, bahut mara... stop the attack." They could not bear it any more, he said.
In this era of technology-driven war, the Indian defence system proved its mettle, he said, noting that over 1,000 drones and missiles launched by Pakistan were destroyed midair.
The main opposition party is importing issues from Pakistan and the Congress and its allies have become spokespersons of Pakistan’s disinformation at a time when narratives play a big role in warfare and are used to demoralise the armed forces and people, the prime minister alleged.
His opponents, Modi said, echo Pakistan's statements to the comma and full stop.
The country is amazed that the Congress is giving a clean chit to Pakistan in the Pahalgam attack, he said in a swipe at former home minister P Chidambaram who had asked if proof existed to state that the terrorists were Pakistanis.
Be it the surgical strikes or the air strikes, opposition parties always hoped for “Modi to get trapped”, and they had a similar wish this time, the prime minister said, citing the campaign against his government over the capture of a BSF personnel by Pakistan. He was safely returned later.
“Terrorists are crying, their masters are crying and some people are crying watching them,” he said in a swipe at the Congress, asserting that Pakistan-based leaders of terrorist groups, who earlier thought they were safe from any Indian action, were now having sleepless nights.
He accused the opposition of doing politics over the deaths of 26 civilians in the Pahalgam terror attack, saying they had started to taunt him within three-four days of the tragedy.
As the Congress questioned the government's decision to stop military action when Indian forces had got the better of Pakistanis, he said Operation Sindoor had met its 100 per cent objective by destroying terror masterminds and their facilities not only in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir but also deep within the neighbouring country.
Keeping the Congress in his line of attack, he alleged that the opposition leaders seized on the propaganda being spread from across the border.
They ignore facts presented by the armed forces but promote Pakistan’s lies, he said, adding that previous precise military operations like surgical strikes and the Balakot air strike had met their targets as well, but opposition parties questioned them too.
Operation Sindoor targeted the epicentre of terrorism, where the Pahalgam attack had been planned and terrorists were recruited and trained, the prime minister said.
In a swipe at Rahul Gandhi over disclosure by WikiLeaks, Modi said a Congress leader had said "Hindu groups" are more dangerous than terror outfit LeT and added that the party leaders had floated the links of "saffron terrorism" to the Mumbai attack despite the clear evidence of Pakistan's involvement.
With opposition leaders probing his government as to why it did not allow the armed forces to reclaim Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK), he cited a host of incidents when the previous Congress governments did not do so despite having the military advantage, as in the 1971 war, and even ceded the territories it had captured.
The Congress government under Jawaharlal Nehru lost over 38,000 km of territory of Aksai Chin, he said and slammed the Indus Waters Treaty agreement that the first prime minister signed with Pakistan as a "big blunder".
The Modi government has put the treaty in abeyance.
"Before asking why PoK has not been taken back yet, Congress must respond -- who let it go. India is still suffering the pain of mistakes committed by previous Congress governments, starting from Jawaharlal Nehru," he said.
Asserting that Operation Sindoor demonstrated the prowess of India’s indigenous defence industry, he said it has raised the global demand for Indian weaponry.
Prime Minister also said his government took a strong decision and put the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance, thus rectifying a "big blunder" committed by the country's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.
Participating in a 19-hour debate in the Lok Sabha on Operation Sindoor, Modi described the signing of the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan in 1960 by Nehru's government as a "big betrayal" of India's dignity.
"It has been an old habit of the Congress to mortgage India's interests. The biggest example of this is the Indus Waters Treaty. Who signed this treaty? Nehru did it and granted rights to 80 per cent of the waters of the rivers originating in India and flowing to Pakistan," Modi said, amid protests from the Congress members.
The prime minister said in a historic move, India has put the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance in the best interests of its citizens and farmers.
"India has firmly conveyed its stance that blood and water cannot flow together," he said.
"The previous Congress-led governments neglected the Indus Waters Treaty and failed to address the mistakes made during Nehruji's era. However, today, India has taken decisive action to rectify those errors," Modi said.
He said India gets its identity from the Indus river, but Nehru and the Congress allowed the World Bank to decide on the sharing of the waters of the Indus and the Jhelum.
"Nehru signed this treaty that granted rights to 80 per cent water to Pakistan and 20 per cent to a big country like India. What kind of diplomacy is this?" Modi asked.
He said had the treaty not been signed, several projects could have been built on the west-flowing rivers to solve the problems of farmers in states, such as Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi.
"India could have generated more electricity and solved its problem of drinking water shortages," Modi said, contending that the treaty had led to inter-state water disputes in the country.
The prime minister slammed Nehru for giving crores of rupees to Pakistan to build canals on the Indus and other rivers, and giving up India's rights to de-silting the dams built on its territory on these rivers.
Modi said Nehru had admitted his mistake later and said he believed that the Indus Waters Treaty would lead to the solution of other problems with Pakistan.
"But he (Nehru) realised that the problems remained as they were," Modi said.
As a response to the Pahalgam terror attack, India announced keeping the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance on April 23.

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