Had there been Operation Sindoor after 26/11, nobody would have dared to attack India: CM Fadnavis

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis connected Saturday (November 22, 2025) said had India taken an Operation Sindoor-like enactment aft the November 2008 Mumbai panic attack, nary 1 would person dared to people the state again.

Speaking astatine an lawsuit astatine the Gateway of India to people the 17^th day of the 26/11 onslaught that is coming up, Mr. Fadnavis said it was not simply an onslaught connected Taj and Trident hotels. Mumbai is the economical superior of India, and an onslaught connected the metropolis was an onslaught connected the sovereignty of the country, helium said.

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“Had we understood this and shown the courageousness to behaviour an ‘Operation Sindoor’ then, cipher would person dared to onslaught america again,” helium said.

India carried retired subject enactment nether Operation Sindoor, targeting panic infrastructure successful Pakistan successful the aftermath of the Pahalgam panic attack of April 2025.

The Mumbai panic attack, during which Pakistani terrorists entered the metropolis by oversea way connected November 26, 2008, and caused mayhem, claimed astatine slightest 166 lives.

Though 17 years person passed, “there is inactive symptom successful our hearts,” Mr. Fadnavis further said.

“We person gathered present to honour the martyrs and the brave-hearts, and retrieve that the menace of panic inactive persists and we request to beryllium alert. We request to beryllium the eyes and ears of our state and talk successful 1 language. We are harmless if we are united,” the Chief Minister said.

Pakistan knows it cannot decision India successful a straightforward war, and hence the violent onslaught successful Pahalgam and the caller blast successful Delhi took place, Mr. Fadnavis said.

He lauded information agencies for managing to prehend 3,000 kg of RDX which was to beryllium utilized to behaviour panic strikes successful Mumbai and different cities.

“PM (Narendra) Modi has said panic and talks cannot spell together, and gave state to the equipped forces to instrumentality action. Through Operation Sindoor, the satellite saw India’s might. India is simply a beardown country, and the warfare (against terror) is not over,” the Chief Minister added.

The lawsuit ‘Global Peace Honours: Remembering the Heroes of 26/11 and Victims of Pahalgam Attack’ had been organised by the Divyaj Foundation headed by Mr. Fadnavis’s woman Amruta Fadnavis.