PM Modi to speak on Operation Sindoor in Parliament today

The Prime Minister is expected to speak in the evening.

He is likely to speak in Parliament at 7 pm, NDTV reported.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will also participate in the debate, which was opened by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday.

The Home Minister is likely to speak in Parliament at 12 noon.

The debate, which began in the lower house of Parliament at 12 noon, went on till midnight.

Battling uproar from the Opposition bench, India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar addressed the Lok Sabha on Monday and said no call between Prime Minister Modi and US President Donald Trump took place between April 22 and May 17, rubbishing the claims of the White House's brokerage in the India-Pakistan ceasefire.

"I want to make two things very clear — at no stage in any conversation with the US was there any linkage with trade and what was going on.

"Secondly, there was no call between the Prime Minister and President Trump from April 22, when President Trump called up to convey his sympathy, till June 17, when he called up, the PM, who was in Canada, explained why he could not meet him," Jaishankar said.

The clarification comes as the Opposition slammed the government weaponising Trump's repeated claims that he had brokered the ceasefire deal between the two nuclear powers using trade as an incentive.

Speaking about the ceasefire and how it happened, Jaishankar said, "On May 10, we received phone calls sharing the impression of other countries that Pakistan was ready to cease the fighting. Our position was that if Pakistan was ready, we needed to get this as a request from the Pakistani side through the DGMO channel. That is exactly how that request came."

Hitting out at Congress party, Jaishankar said that, “We are getting warnings about Pak-China collaboration, when this has been going on for 60 years. People who did nothing have the temerity to question the government which brought down Bahawalpur and Muridke terror sites."

"The longest Pakistan has been under the FATF grey list was under the Modi government," he said.

The EAM said that Operation Sindoor is a new normal in how India will respond to terror.

He stated that seven parliamentary delegations went to 33 nations. "…made India proud by explaining our zero tolerance towards terror to world leaders," he said.

On the post-Pahalgam diplomatic actions by the Indian government, Jaishankar said that the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) had decided that the Indus Waters Treaty would be held in abeyance until Pakistan abjures its support for terrorism, along with a host of other steps.

The Indian Armed Forces launched Operation Sindoor hitting nine terrorist bases in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

The military conflict escalated after Pakistan targeted civilians across the borders without any provocation to be aptly countered by the Indian military.

Nine terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) were targeted and destroyed in 25 minutes of Operation Sindoor.

The terrorists camps were the major training hubs of Pak-based terror groups- Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Hizbul Mujahideen.

According to a statement by the Press Information Bureau (PIB), the operation was aimed at neutralizing terror camps actively involved in planning and executing attacks against India.