Centre holds all-party meeting to brief all political parties on Operation Sindoor; Rahul Gandhi, Kharge attend | WATCH

Centre on Thursday conducted an all-party meeting to brief all political parties on Operation Sindoor. The meeting was chaired by Rajnath Singh. 

Apart from Singh, Amit Shah, S Jaishankar, J P Nadda and Nirmala Sitharaman represented the government, while Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge from the Congress, Sandip Bandyopadhyay of the Trinamool Congress and DMK's T R Baalu were among the leading opposition figures in the meeting.

Other opposition leaders included Ram Gopal Yadav of the Samajwadi Party, Sanjay Singh of the AAP, Shiv Sena (UBT)'s Sanjay Raut, NCP (SP)'s Supriya Sule, BJD's Sasmit Patra and CPI(M)'s John Brittas.

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Following the meeting, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Riiiju, “The meeting was chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, who briefed everyone about the Operation Sindoor and all the leaders gave their suggestions. All the leaders have shown maturity at a time when we are all working together. Everyone has hailed and congratulated the armed forces for Operation Sindoor, and said that we will support the government and armed forces. We have received a few suggestions as well... The Defence Minister said we don't form the government just to rule...”

On Wednesday, Riiiju had posted on X about the all-party meeting.

"Govt has called an All Party leaders meeting at 11 am on 8th May, 2025 at Committee Room: G-074, in the Parliament Library Building, Parliament Complex in New Delhi," he said.

In response to the Pahalgam terror attack, the Indian armed forces launched missile strikes early Wednesday targeting nine terrorist locations across Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Key targets included the Jaish-e-Mohammad stronghold in Bahawalpur and the Lashkar-e-Taiba base in Muridke.

Codenamed 'Operation Sindoor,' the strikes came two weeks after 26 civilians were killed in the massacre in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir.

The government on Wednesday said Indian military carried out a "measured, non-escalatory, proportionate, and responsible" strike to dismantle terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan to "deter and to pre-empt" any further terrorist strikes to retaliate the Pahalgam attack.

(With inputs from agencies)