Union Home Minister Amit Shah has hailed Operation Sindoor as a turning point in India’s security doctrine.

Addressing a public meeting at Gandhinagar in Gujarat, he said that Operation Sindoor marked a historic shift in India’s national security response.

Mr Shah emphasised that under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decisive leadership, Indian armed forces struck deep into Pakistani territory, dismantling terrorist infrastructure.

Home Minister said, for the first time since independence, our forces crossed 100 km into Pakistan and obliterated terror camps. He said, in Muzaffarabad, Kotli, Bahawalpur, Muridke – our message thundered loud and clear.

The world watched with admiration, while Pakistan trembled with fear, he said. Mr Shah said, the operation led to the destruction of major terror outfits’ command centres, including those of Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba, as well as nine other training camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Besides dismantling the terror infrastructure, more than 100 terrorists were neutralised, he said.

Mr Shah also inaugurated and laid the foundation stones for development projects worth over 700 crore rupees in the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency.

Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for various people centric projects of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation worth over 1500 crore rupees today.

The Home Minister, who is on a two-day visit to Gujarat, will also address a conference organised by the Gujarat State Co-operative Union at Science City in Ahmedabad in the morning.