An all-party Indian parliamentary delegation, led by senior BJP leader and MP Ravi Shankar Prasad, met with the United Kingdom’s Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel and her team on Sunday to underscore India’s unwavering stance in the fight against cross-border terrorism. The meeting also highlighted Operation Sindoor as a decisive step in establishing a new counter-terrorism doctrine.
In a statement posted on X (formerly Twitter), the Indian High Commission in the UK said: “The All-Party Parliamentary Delegation met with Shadow Foreign Secretary @pritipatel and her team to share India’s firm resolve in combating cross-border terrorism. They also highlighted how #OperationSindoor exemplifies the new normal set by India in this ongoing effort.”
The bipartisan delegation included BJP MPs Daggubati Purandeswari and Samik Bhattacharya, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi, Congress MPs Ghulam Ali Khatana and Amar Singh, former Union Minister MJ Akbar, and former Ambassador Pankaj Saran.
Prior to the meeting with Patel, the delegation engaged with members of the Indian diaspora at India House in London. During the interaction, the MPs emphasized India’s united political consensus against terrorism and reiterated the country’s commitment to take decisive action against all terror threats.
“They reaffirmed India’s united stance and unwavering commitment to combating terrorism in all its forms, and underlined the readiness of India to continue to decisively punish any and all acts of terror,” the Indian High Commission noted.
Addressing the diaspora, Ravi Shankar Prasad strongly criticized Pakistan’s military-dominated political structure. He described Pakistan as a country run by its generals, with no real democratic accountability. “The armed forces have made a country for themselves. Unelectable, unaccountable,” he said, referring to current and past military leaders including General Asim Munir and former rulers Ayub Khan, Yahya Khan, Zia-ul-Haq, and Pervez Musharraf.
Prasad recounted India’s response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir, in which 26 people were killed. On May 7, India launched Operation Sindoor, a swift and targeted military action against terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. “Over 100 terrorists were eliminated in a 20-minute night strike — with no civilian casualties. Only terrorist infrastructure was targeted,” Prasad said, describing the mission as a “decisive blow.”
He also praised the Indian Armed Forces for intercepting retaliatory missile attacks from Pakistan and neutralizing them without damage. “Our forces completely blocked and paralysed all incoming missiles,” he said, lauding their precision and professionalism.
Prasad further pointed to the presence of high-profile terrorists in Pakistan, including Osama bin Laden, and reminded the audience that the perpetrators of the IC-814 hijacking, aimed at freeing Masood Azhar, had now been eliminated — as had members of Azhar’s family — under Operation Sindoor.
Operation Sindoor marked a major military operation targeting groups like Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and Hizbul Mujahideen, resulting in the destruction of multiple terror bases across the border.
As the delegation concluded its outreach in the UK, the message was clear: India remains united and resolute in its fight against terrorism, and it expects strong international support, particularly from democratic partners like the United Kingdom.
