New Delhi: India is fanning out seven all-party delegations for the global outreach on Operation Sindoor. An all-party delegation led by JDU MP Sanjay Kumar Jha left from Delhi airport on Wednesday. The delegation is set to visit Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Republic of Korea, and Singapore to showcase Operation Sindoor and India’s continued fight against terrorism. Another delegation, led by Shiv Sena MP Shrikant Eknath Shinde, is set to depart for the United Arab Emirates.
#WATCH | An all-party delegation led by JDU MP Sanjay Kumar Jha leaves from Delhi airport. The delegation is set to visit Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Republic of Korea, and Singapore to showcase #OperationSindoor and India’s continued fight against terrorism.
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The seven delegations, comprising 59 members of Parliament, former ministers, and politicians from across party lines, will tour 32 countries as well as the European Union headquarters in Brussels.
Out of the 59 leaders, as many as 31 belong to the ruling NDA, while the rest are from non-NDA parties. The Centre declared that the aim of this global diplomatic outreach mission is to highlight India’s commitment to root out terrorism, following the armed forces’ recent success in Operation Sindoor, which was launched to dismantle the terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
Key highlights on parliamentary delegations’ global outreach
- The delegation led by JDU MP Sanjay Kumar Jha includes Ambassador Mohan Kumar, BJP MP Pradan Baruah, TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee, BJP MP Brij Lal, BJP MP Aparajita Sarangi, JD(U) MP Sanjay Kumar Jha, CPI(M) MP John Brittas, and BJP MP Dr Hemang Joshi.
- Shiv Sena MP Eknath Shinde is leading the multi-party delegation which will visit the UAE. The delegation members include BJP leaders Bansuri Swaraj, Atul Garg, and Manan Kumar Mishra, along with BJD leader Sasmit Patra, IUML’s ET Mohammed Basheer, former minister SS Ahluwalia, and former diplomat Sujan Chinoy. The delegation is also scheduled to travel to Liberia, Congo, and Sierra Leone.
- The other delegations are led by Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad, Baijayant Panda of BJP, Kanimozhi Karunanidhi of DMK, and Supriya Sule of NCP(SP).
- All the seven delegations will have a dossier which will highlight Pakistan’s support for and promotion of terrorism, while detailing India’s new approach to fight cross-border terrorism following Operation Sindoor and its stance on terrorism. The delegations will highlight major terror attacks backed by Pakistan, including the 2008 Mumbai attacks and the 2005 London bombing which had links to Pakistan.
- The delegation headed by BJP’s Baijayant Panda will visit Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Algeria. The members of Ravi Shankar Prasad’s group will travel to the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Denmark and the EU. The delegation under Sanjay Kumar Jha will go to Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan and Singapore. The team led by Shashi Tharoor will visit the US, Brazil, Colombia, Panama, and Guyana with their mission message. The Kanimozhi team will travel to Spain, Slovenia, Greece, Latvia and Russia. And lastly, the team of Supriya Sule will visit Egypt, Qatar, Ethiopia and South Africa.
- In a meeting that lasted three hours on Monday, the members of Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs were briefed by Foreign secretary Vikram Misri about the latest foreign policy developments between India and Pakistan as a fallout of Pahalgam attack and the launch of Operation Sindoor.
