Operation Sindoor: ‘Will speak as responsible Indians,’ says Supriya Sule ahead of all-party delegations’ visits

Nationalist Congress Party Sharadchandra Pawar leader Supriya Sule who is to lead an allparty delegation to put forward Indias stance against terrorism emphasised that all the Members of the Parliament MP who will be representing India in various world capitals will be speaking as responsible Indians reported news agency ANIAddressing a press conference in Mumbai Sule said the remaining delegations would depart on Saturday following a scheduled briefing by the Ministry of External Affairs MEAWe will discuss only after the MEA briefs us This is a huge responsibility Whatever we say during our outreach we will say it as responsible Indians Sule saidTalking about the MEA briefing of the remaining four delegations she added Briefing of the remaining four groups has been scheduled for tomorrow and we will leave for our visit the day after tomorrowSule will be leading the delegation which will visit Egypt Qatar Ethiopia and South Africa Eight other members including Bharatiya Janata Partyrsquos BJP Rajiv Pratap Ruddy Anurag Singh Thakur and V Muraleedharan along with Manish Tewari and Anand Sharma from the Congress Telugu Desam Partyrsquos TDP Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu Aam Aadmi Partyrsquos AAP Vikramjeet Singh Sahney and former permanent representative of India to the UN Syed Akbaruddin are part of the groupThe allparty delegations will highlight Indias national consensus and resolute approach to combating terrorism in all forms and manifestations They would present before the world the countrys strong message of zero tolerance against terrorismEarlier in the day a delegation headed by Shiv Sena Lok Sabha MP Shrikant Shinde met with Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahyan and parliamentarian Ali Rashid AlNuaimi in Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates UAE as part of Indias global outreach against terrorism after Operation SindoorOperation Sindoor UAE Japan support Indias fight against terrorismAfter the meeting AlNuaimi affirmed his support for India in its fight against terrorismTerrorism has no religion no nationality It is an evil for all humanity Nuaimi told reporters adding Terrorism is an enemy of humanity Wise people should rise and speak against terrorismrdquoAnother delegation met Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and reiterated Indias unwavering national consensus and firm commitment to combat terrorism in all its formsIwaya expressed strong support for Indias fight against terrorism and lauded the restraint shown by New Delhi The Japanese Foreign Minister also called for strict punishment for perpetrators of terror actsA total of seven groups comprising eight to nine members from various political parties have been selected by India to represent its stance of zero tolerance against terror and brief the representatives of other countries on Operation SindoorThe operation was launched on May 7 as a decisive military response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack in which 26 people were killed The Indian Armed Forces targeted terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistanoccupied Jammu and Kashmir Over 100 terrorists affiliated with terror outfits like the JaisheMohammed LashkareTaiba and Hizbul Mujahideen were killed in Indiarsquos strikesAfter the operation Pakistan resorted to crossborder shelling across the Line of Control and Jammu and Kashmir in which Indiarsquos civilians were killed Drone attacks were also attempted along the border regions but India thwarted them and launched a coordinated attack in response damaging radar infrastructure communication centres and airfields across 11 airbases in Pakistan On May 10 an understanding of the cessation of hostilities between the countries was announcedWith ANI inputsatOptionskeyd0ddb8ef8f1a62a8cdd22fac27fc5ea7formatiframeheight90width728params