Post-Sindoor Agenda for India's Leadership

PM Modi Held 8 Meetings With Armed Forces Chiefs During Operation Sindoor To Make Sure There Was No Communication Lag Or Leakage

- Shishir Gupta

NEW DELHI: One of the interesting sidelights of Operation Sindoor was the interplay between the military and the government; unlike in Pakistan, in India, the military comes under the civilian government. Prime Minister Narendra Modi held eight meetings with armed forces chiefs during Operation Sindoor to ensure that there was no time or communication lag or leakage between the government's direction and military implementation.

Modi, defence minister Rajnath Singh and the armed forces chiefs discussed the Indian response to the Pahalgam massacre and subsequent pin-pointed strikes on nine terror factories in Pakistan on May 7 to show that India meant business and that the country's political leadership was accountable if anything went south. Not in decades has a PM held multiple direct meetings with the service chiefs. The Intelligence Bureau chief and the R&AW chief were also present in some of these meetings so that there was accountability in intelligence inputs for military operations.