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Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah today inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for various development projects worth ₹708 crore in Gujarat's capital, Gandhinagar, and addressed the benefit distribution program of the Postal Department. In his address on this occasion, Shri Amit Shah said that since becoming Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has developed the country on the lines of Gujarat, and today India is progressing towards becoming developed in every field.

Shri Amit Shah said that Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has not only developed the country in every field but has also worked to keep it safe. He said that before Shri Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister in 2014, terrorist attacks used to take place in the country almost every day, terrorists used to come from Pakistan and kill our soldiers and people and carry out bomb blasts, but no response was given.

Union Home Minister said that three major terror attacks have taken place since Shri Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister. He said that the first attack was in Uri, second in Pulwama and the third attack was recently carried out in Pahalgam by Pakistan-sponsored terrorists. He said that Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has responded to every attack with such force that today the whole world is watching with surprise and Pakistan is experiencing it with fear.

Shri Amit Shah said that when the terrorist attack took place in Uri, India gave a symbolic response by conducting a surgical strike, and in response to the Pulwama attack, a warning was issued by conducting an air strike. He said that Pakistan and the terrorists still did not mend their ways and they attacked Pahalgam, but this time the headquarters of the terrorists were destroyed under Operation Sindoor. He said that security experts from all over the world are surprised when they analyse Operation Sindoor.

Union Home Minister said that India avenged the Pahalgam terror attack by razing to the ground the headquarters of Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba. He said that Pakistani terrorists asked our citizens, tourists, unarmed people about their religion and then cowardly and mercilessly murdered them in front of their families and children. He said that India responded to the Pahalgam terror attack in accordance with its culture. Shri Shah said that India blew up the headquarters of Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba and the brave Indian forces destroyed 9 such hideouts where terrorists were prepared and trained. He said that our army responded to the terrorists by going 100 kilometres inside Pakistan's border and at many places in PoK.

Shri Amit Shah said that the echo of our bomb blasts sent a clear message to the masterminds of many international terrorist incidents and the terrorists hiding in the camps that if any kind of misbehavior is done with the people of India and any terrorist incident is committed, then it will be responded with double the vigor. He said that we had attacked only the terrorist bases, but the Pakistani army dared to attack our innocent people from Kutch to Kashmir and the western border of India on 8 May. He said, our air defense system, which has been perfected during the reign of Prime Minister Modi, did not allow a single missile or drone to fall on Indian soil. He said that after India eliminated more than 100 dreaded terrorists, Pakistan did not succeed in harming India in any way. He said that the Pakistani army was still thinking, then on 9 May, the brave soldiers of India destroyed the ability of their Air Force to attack many airbases of Pakistan at 15 places. Union Home Minister said that today the whole world is watching the strength of the Indian Armed Forces with surprise.

Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation said that for the first time after independence, India went 100 km inside Pakistan and destroyed Pakistani terrorist camps. He said that those who used to scare us in the name of nuclear, our Air Force, Navy and Army have given them a befitting reply. He said that today the whole world is praising the accuracy of the striking power of our forces, their restraint and the strong political will of Prime Minister Modi. He said that today the whole country is saluting the soldiers of the three armed forces of India.

Shri Amit Shah said that the valour of our armed forces has made the entire nation proud. He said that it is a matter of pride for all of us that our leader Shri Narendra Modi, a son of Gujarat and Bharat Mata, has worked to make Bharat Mata proud and secure the nation. He said that as long as military operations are discussed in the world, Operation Sindoor will also be discussed. Shri Shah said that the ‘OperationSindoor’ was named by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi himself in honour of our mothers and sisters. He said that respect for sindoor is an Indian tradition and the message of this has been conveyed to the entire world by naming this as Operation Sindoor. He said that Prime Minister Modi has fulfilled the promise he had made in Bihar that we will definitely take revenge for the Pahalgam terror attack.

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