Their tributes to the founding fathers of the nation were followed by the nine-member team being received by Indian High Commissioner to the UK Vikram Doraiswami at India House in London, where hundreds of community leaders and members of the Indian diaspora had assembled waving tricolours and chanting ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’.”You have great regard for your motherland. The assurance to all of you is that India is strong, resurgent and will take care of Pakistan and terrorism, but you convey our message here and globally, too –terrorists must be made to pay the cost,” said Prasad.The evening opened with a rendition of the Indian National Anthem and was interspersed with applause and chants in praise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.”The delegation here belongs to different parties with different ideologies, but when it comes to the interest of our country, we all stand here united, not belonging to different parties but as Indians,” said BJP MP Daggubati Purandeswari.”Operation Sindoor was a political directive of the Indian government, of the Indian Prime Minister, and I want to share with you that it was a 100 per cent success,” said former deputy national security adviser Pankaj Saran.The High Commissioner underscored that terrorism needs to be treated as a global issue and not a problem limited to India.”It is a global reality, and to pretend that this is something that happens only occasionally that Indians have to live with is a grave mistake…the time has come for the world to take it more seriously.”The community gathering was followed by a private dinner with the UK’s shadow foreign secretary, Priti Patel, and her team from the Opposition Conservative Party.”The delegation reaffirmed India’s united stance and unwavering commitment to combating terrorism in all its forms,” the High Commission of India in London said in a statement.”They emphasised India’s readiness to decisively respond to any and all acts of terrorism, underscoring the nation’s policy of zero tolerance towards such threats,” the statement added.The multi-party delegation, led by Prasad and comprising MPs Purandeswari, Chaturvedi, Ghulam Ali Khatana, Amar Singh, Samik Bhattacharya, M.Thambidurai besides Akbar and Ambassador Saran, is scheduled for a series of engagements with think tanks, parliamentarians and diaspora leaders during the three-day UK visit concluding on Tuesday.
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