Government Briefs All-Party Meeting on 'Operation Sindoor' Amid India-Pakistan Tensions

New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday convened a high-level all-party meeting to brief political leaders on the success and implications of Operation Sindoor, carried out in retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack. This marks the second such meeting in two weeks, as tensions escalate between India and Pakistan.
Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, S. Jaishankar, J.P. Nadda, and Nirmala Sitharaman represented the government at the meeting. was also present among the early participants.
Senior leaders from the opposition, including CPI(M) MP John Brittas, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and MP Rahul Gandhi, Trinamool Congress's Sudip Bandyopadhyay, and DMK's T.R. Baalu, were in attendance. The meeting was chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
Other key opposition attendees included Ram Gopal Yadav (Samajwadi Party), Sanjay Singh (AAP), Sanjay Raut (Shiv Sena-UBT), Supriya Sule (NCP-SP), and Sasmit Patra (BJD). JD(U) leader Sanjay Jha, Union Minister and LJP (Ram Vilas) leader Chirag Paswan, and AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi also participated.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju noted that the meeting was aimed at fostering transparency and unity among political parties following the Indian armed forces’ retaliatory strikes.
Early Wednesday, Indian forces conducted precision missile strikes on nine terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, including major bases linked to Jaish-e-Mohammed in Bahawalpur and Lashkar-e-Taiba in Muridke. These strikes formed part of Operation Sindoor, launched in response to the massacre of 26 civilians in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam.
The government had previously convened an all-party meeting on April 24 to brief leaders about the Pahalgam attack. The current meeting served to update political parties on the strategic outcome of the military operation and the national security situation.