After an all-party delegation met with “paid to protest” Pakistanis at a diaspora gathering in Copenhagen, Shiv Sena (UBT) Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi took a jab at the IMF loan to Pakistan, claiming it is “coming handy.” She asked if individuals who lend money to Pakistan are aware of the way the money is being spent.
“Today we were met with ‘paid to protest’ Pakistanis as we reached the venue of our diaspora meeting in Copenhagen,” the Shiva Sena leader wrote on X. While addressing the diaspora in Copenhagen, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi said she noticed protestors waving certain flags as she arrived and said, “I thought to myself, the IMF loan is coming in handy, and I hope those who are giving them the IMF loan realise what it’s being used for.”
She said that Indians are still steadfastly united in their support for “mother India,” saying she went outside to check if the protesters had departed and was informed they had. “So, just two minutes ago, I walked outside to check if they’d left, and I was told they’d gone. And while we Indians continue to be resolutely strong in our backing for mother India,” she added.
Given how many women lost their spouses, Chaturvedi claimed that the 26/11 Mumbai bombings had a long-lasting effect on her as a woman. She referred to Operation Sindoor as a memorial to those women and a warning to Pakistan that “stronger retaliation will be used to avenge every life lost.”
“I come from the city of Mumbai. We had the terror attacks in Mumbai; how many women were left without their husbands? As a woman, it has impacted me,” she said. “It has changed my own role towards how I look at Pakistan, and for every woman who has lost her husband. For every woman whose husband was in the army and lost his life in the service to the nation, I salute them all, and I stand by them,” she added.
Operation Sindoor, according to Priyanka Chaturvedi, was India’s means of retaliating for the suffering of women who had been left widowed by terrorism and delivering a clear message to Pakistan that every life lost would be met with greater vigour. “Our Operation Sindoor was a fightback for all those women who perhaps will not get a chance to put a sindoor back on their forehead, but to remind Pakistan that every life you disrupt, we will come back ten times harder into your homes, destroy your terror camps, and won’t let you go,” she said.
