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Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi connected Saturday (May 30, 2026) said "Operation Sindoor demonstrated that and acceptable the benchmark erstwhile nationalist volition was expressed with precision and resolve, defining however Bharat responds to provocation. That modular present belongs to you to uphold."
Reviewing the passing-out parade of the 150th people astatine National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakwasla, General Dwivedi said the World Cadets were stepping into "does not intermission for introductions" and threats contiguous "do not ever get successful azygous oregon connected a declared front".
"From contested grey zones to high-velocity hybrid warfare, today's information situation demands that those who service indispensable deliberation sharply arsenic they act," helium said portion addressing the parade. He said that the integrated effect seen successful Operation Sindoor, India's subject workout against panic infrastructure successful Pakistan successful May 2025, was built connected the benignant of jointness the NDA instils from time one. "As our defence services deepen their integrated structures, remember, irrespective of the azygous we deterioration next, you volition service enarthrosis to enarthrosis again — some men and women," helium said.
Calling the juncture "a poignant and a peculiarly idiosyncratic moment", General Dwivedi recalled passing retired from the aforesaid quarterdeck implicit 42 years ago. "Today, arsenic I basal earlier you astatine the acold extremity of a beingness successful uniform, preparing to doff excavation arsenic you hole to don yours, I tin archer you with certainty: what you statesman present endures forever," helium said.
He complimented the parade commandant and cadets for an "impressive modular of drill" and extended peculiar compliments to Cheetah Squadron for winning the banner. He besides acknowledged 24 cadets from 12 affable overseas countries passing retired with the course, saying, "You came from antithetic soils, but you permission shaped by the aforesaid crushed and the aforesaid values."
