New Delhi:
“Buddha is smiling,” Did former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi get the code message when India successfully exploded its first atomic bomb in the Pokharan Test range in Rajasthan. This date was Buddha Purnima, which marked the birth of Gautama Buddha. Therefore, codename. The test inspired Pakistan to accelerate its nuclear program, concluding the tests in 1998.
Fifty years later, Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose the same Buddhist festival day to give a strong message to Pakistan: “India will not tolerate any nuclear blackmail. India will do accurate and decisively on the terrorist hideout developing under the cover of nuclear blackmail.”
The nuclear test was described as a “peaceful” blast, half a century before the Indira Gandhi government announcement.
PM Modi used the word “Shanti” with a sign Qwa Non: “If Pakistan wants to survive, it will have to destroy its terrorist infrastructure. There is no other way of peace”.
‘Buddha smiles again’
The Prime Minister’s statement was in line with Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister and BJP Stalwart, India conducted three underground nuclear tests in the same Rajasthan test range 24 years after Pokharan -1 on 11 May 1998. Two days later, India conducted two more tests.
He kept his declaration straight, avoiding the word “peaceful”.
Incidentally, the Vajpayee government also chose Buddha’s birthday for nuclear tests, named Operation Shakti, but is widely known as ‘Buddha Smiles Again’.
‘The path of peace goes through power’
PM Modi’s address on Monday His first since his 100-hour military conflict with his atomic-head neighbor after New Delhi’s ‘Operation Sindoor’ was his first since a terrorist attack in Pahgam in Jammu and Kashmir, in which 26 civilians were killed in cold blood. In a 25 -minute operation, India killed nine terrorist bases in Pakistan and Pakistan -occupied Kashmir in the early hours of May 7.
PM Modi said, “Instead of supporting India’s strike against terrorism, Pakistan started attacking India,” If there is a terrorist attack on India, a suitable answer will be given … only a response will be given to our terms. ,
PM Modi ended his speech with the “peace” message of Buddha – “Today is Buddha Purnima. Lord Buddha has shown us the path of peace”. But, there was an important membership, “The path of peace also goes through power.”
