Opposition parties on Thursday praised the armed forces on the first anniversary of Operation Sindoor, but also questioned the central government over the ceasefire, reporting military casualties and China’s alleged support for Pakistan during the May 2025 armed conflict.
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh demanded an independent probe into the operation on the lines of the Cargill review committee.
“The first ceasefire announcement that halted Operation Sindoor was unexpectedly made at 5:37 PM EST on May 10, 2025, by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who claimed that it was President Trump’s intervention that made this possible,” Ramesh said on social media platform X.
He added that Trump “repeated this claim more than a hundred times in different countries without being refuted even once by his dear friend, Prime Minister Narendra Modi.”
Operation Sindoor was launched on the intervening night of May 6-7, 2025 after Pakistan-based terrorists killed 26 civilians, most of them tourists, in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir on April 22 last year.
Subsequently, Indian armed forces struck nine terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, including the JeM headquarters in Bahawalpur and Lashkar-e-Taiba camps in Muridke. A ceasefire was agreed on May 10 after Pakistan’s Director General of Military Operations requested his Indian counterpart.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge also paid tribute to the armed forces and said on the
He added that his country “will never forget and will never forgive” the killing of 26 civilians in Pahalgam. Rahul Gandhi also praised the armed forces.
India has consistently maintained that the ceasefire was reached bilaterally between the Directors-General of Military Operations without any third-party interference, and has repeatedly rejected US President Donald Trump’s claims of mediation.
However, the government did not respond to the opposition’s demand for an independent review of Operation Sindoor.
To mark the anniversary, the Indian Army posted a video on X at 1:05 a.m. on Thursday — the exact time the strikes began a year ago — with the message: “India forgets nothing. India forgives nothing.”
