India decided that colour of Sindoor, the vermilion colour on forehead of women, will match the colour of the blood of the killers - Shashi Tharoor

 Addressing the Indian community in Panama, Congress lawmaker and leader of the Indian delegation said, "Some women cried out The terrorists killed me too, and they said, 'No, go back, tell what happened to you'. 

"We heard, we heard their cries and India decided that the colour of the sindoor, the vermilion colour on the forehead of our women, will also match the colour of the blood of the killers, the perpetrators, the attackers...". 

Tharoor-led delegation in Panama City for a three-day official visit

Tharoor said India's Operation Sindoor was mandated by the terror attack in Pahalgam. Addressing the Indian community in Panama, Tharoor spoke about how terrorists killed men in front of their wives and told them to go tell others about it.

"Our Prime Minister has made it very clear Operation Sindoor was necessary because these terrorists came and wiped the Sindoor off the foreheads of 26 women by depriving them of their husbands and fathers, their married lives," he said.  

The delegation, led by Shashi Tharoor, comprises Members of Parliament - Sarfaraz Ahmed, G M Harish Balayogi, Shashank Mani Tripathi, Tejasvi Surya, Bhubaneswar Kalita, Mallikarjun Devda, Milind Deora and former Indian Ambassador to the US, Taranjit Singh Sandhu. 

Tharoor also said:

"What has changed in recent years is that the terrorists have also realised they will have a price to pay, on that, let there be no doubt. 

When, for the first time, India breached the Line of Control between India and Pakistan to conduct a surgical strike on a terror base, a launch pad - the Uri strike in September 2015. That was already something we had not done before. 

Even during the Kargil War, we had not crossed the Line of Control; in Uri, we did, and then came the attack in Pulwama in January 2019." 

"This time, we crossed not only the Line of Control but also the international border, and we struck the terrorist headquarters in Balakot. 

This time, we have gone beyond both of those. We have not only gone beyond the Line of Control and the international border. 

We have struck at the Punjabi heartland of Pakistan by hitting terror bases, training centres, terror headquarters in nine places."

Meanwhile, in a humanitarian effort to support civilians affected by the Pakistani shelling during the Indo-Pak conflict, the Indian Army organised a free medical camp in the border areas of Jammu and Kashmir's Uri sector.