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Informist, Wednesday, May 21, 2025

NEW DELHI – An all-party delegation comprising nine members Wednesday left for Japan as part of India's diplomatic outreach on Operation Sindoor, to expose Pakistan's involvement in nurturing terrorism. The delegation, led by Janata Dal (United) leader Sanjay Kumar Jha, will also visit South Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia.

Jha said terrorism was Pakistan's state policy, and termed this as the biggest issue. He said his delegation would highlight Pakistan's involvement in terrorism and also put forth India's policy of zero tolerance to terrorism. Communist Party of India (Marxist) member John Brittas, a member of the delegation led by Jha, said the delegation's first meeting was in Japan and from there, they will move to South Korea. The delegation will interact with civil society members, media, public opinion makers, and many sections of the society in these countries, Brittas said.

The Indian government has constituted seven all-party delegations to engage key partner countries, including members of the UN Security Council, to showcase India's continued fight against terrorism. These delegations will visit 32 countries.

"The all-party delegations will project India's national consensus and resolute approach to combating terrorism in all forms and manifestations. They would carry forth to the world the country's strong message of zero-tolerance against terrorism," the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs had said in statement.

The delegations comprise members of Parliament from different parties, prominent political personalities, and distinguished diplomats.

On Tuesday, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri briefed the delegations on the purpose of the outreach exercise.

Other delegations are led by the Congress's Shashi Tharoor, the Bharatiya Janata Party's Ravi Shankar Prasad and Baijayant Panda, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar) leader Supriya Sule, and Shiv Sena leader Shrikant Eknath Shinde.

The delegation led by Tharoor is scheduled to travel to the US, Brazil, Colombia, Guyana and Panama and will leave on Sunday. The delegation led by Prasad is scheduled to visit the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Denmark, among others.

The delegation led by Karunanidhi will travel to Russia, Slovenia, Greece, Latvia and Spain, and will leave on May 22. The delegation led by Panda will visit Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Algeria. The Shinde-led delegation is scheduled to visit the United Arab Emirates, Liberia, Congo and Sierra Leone, while the delegation led by Sule will visit Eqypt, Qatar, Ethiopia and South Africa.

India had launced Operation Sindoor on May 7 in retaliation to the terrorist attack in Pahalgam in which 26 people were killed. Under the operation, India struck terrorist camps at nine locations in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu & Kashmir, and claimed to have killed over 100 terrorists. Prime Minister Narendra Modi termed Operation Sindoor India's policy against terrorism.  End

Reported by Kuldeep Singh

Edited by Avishek Dutta

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