You'll remain sitting there for next 20 years: Amit Shah slams Opposition amid Op Sindoor debate in LS
Union Home Minister Amit Shah slammed the Opposition in Lok Sabha on Monday amid the heated debate on Operation Sindoor, when they raised questions on External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's statement the US had no role to play in the ceasefire between India and Pakistan.

"I have an objection that they (Opposition) don't have faith in an Indian Foreign Minister but they have faith in some other country," Shah said.
"I can understand the importance of foreign in their party. But this doesn't mean that all the things of their party should be imposed here in the House. This is the reason why they are sitting there (opposition benches), and will remain sitting there for the next 20 years," the home minister said.
The Opposition made several interruptions when Jaishankar was delivering his address in the Lok Sabha on Operation Sindoor and said US President Donald Trump has no role in the ceasefire post Pahalgam terror attack.
"Will you not believe your own foreign minister," Shah said amid boos from the Opposition leaders.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday rejected all claims by Donald Trump that he played a role in negotiating India-Pakistan ceasefire following the Pahalgam terror attack and said there had been any telephonic conversation between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the US President from April 22 to June 17.
Speaking during the 16-hour marathon debate on Operation Sindoor, India's retaliatory action, in the Lok Sabha, Jaishankar said the result of India’s diplomacy post-Pahalgam attack was that only three out of 190 nations which are part of the UN opposed Operation Sindoor.
"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.
He said multilateral groups such as Quad and BRICS condemned the April 22 Pahalgam attack, besides many individual countries.
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"The German foreign minister said India has every right to defend itself against terror and will support us; so has France and the EU," the foreign minister said.
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 foreign minister said that Operation Sindoor is a new normal in how India will respond to terror.
IBNS
Senior Staff Reporter at Northeast Herald, covering news from Tripura and Northeast India.
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