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India’s ruling party MP asks for SoP against terror sponsors
“India and Brazil are working towards a bilateral agreement on combating terror, which is encouraging,” Tejasvi Surya said.
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Lalit K Jha - Thu, 05, Jun 2025
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Tejasvi Surya (in black) with the Indian delegation. / Lalit K Jha
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which leads the ruling alliance in India, calls for a global consensus on defining terror and a protocol to deal with countries that sponsor it.
BJP member of Parliament, Tejasvi Surya, a member of the Indian all-party delegation visiting the U.S. to explain India’s rationale behind Operation Sindoor, said his country had first made the proposal to the United Nations in 1996, in the form of the Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism.
He told the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on June 4 when his delegation met the media: “But unfortunately, even until today, there hasn't been a consensus around that to define in international terms what terrorism means and to come up with an international framework to go after those who sponsor it, fund it, and curb terrorism. I think that's a very important direction towards all countries coming together.”
He revealed that when the delegation visited Brazil with its messaging, “we learned that India and Brazil is working towards a bilateral agreement on combating terror, which is I think a very encouraging important step for both of these countries”.
Sharing with the media that he has access to a list of 32 major terrorist attacks affecting the United States “with connection with Pakistan”, Surya stated: “The world needs to take note that the terror that is emanating from Pakistan is not just a threat to the immediate geography, but is a threat to the whole world.”
He said Pakistan has a long history, since 1947, of orchestrating attacks directly or through proxy and then claiming not to have any role in them. Even in the Kargil war in 1999, “it was again Pakistani military, which was directly involved in the aggression, but they're against the claim, (taking) no responsibility”.
What more evidence could be there other than the fact that “when the bodies of the (Pakistani) soldiers were retrieved, they were not ready to take them back”, he said, asking: “Can you expect, I mean is there any other country in the world that would do that?”
Referring to the latest terror attack in Pahalgam, Surya said a terror organization called The Resistance Front took responsibility for killing 26 Indian tourists but when a statement was to be released in the UN Security Council, “it was Pakistan and it was (with) the support of China that it was removed”.
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