Rahul Gandhi’s scintillating performance in Parliament during the debate on Operation Sindoor has joggled the political landscape and forced even his fiercest critics to take note. It was a rare blend of clarity, conviction, and confrontation — a speech that surprised the treasury benches and struck directly at the vulnerabilities of Defence Minister, Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister, S. Jaishankar. In a House often dominated by the BJP’s disciplined majority and narrative control, Rahul’s intervention stood out as calculated, credible, and commanding.

Barely a month after completing one year as Leader of the Opposition in the 18th Lok Sabha, Rahul seems to have finally internalised the method of strategic attack. He zeroed in on a gaping contradiction in Rajnath Singh’s statement: that India had destroyed eight terror launch pads in just 22 minutes and then voluntarily informed Pakistan that no military installations would be targeted, effectively signalling that escalation was not intended.

Rahul asked the obvious but unsettling question — why did India feel the need to send such a message? Wasn’t this a sign of political hesitation, an admission that the leadership lacked the will to send a lasting deterrent to terror sponsors?

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Questioning India’s Diplomatic Leverage

Rahul didn’t stop there. He turned his attention to Jaishankar, whose carefully curated image of diplomatic finesse was shaken by a single question: If 190 out of 193 United Nations member countries supported India’s position, as the government claimed, why did none of them publicly condemn........

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