Disproportionate response to terror is norm now: PM Modi

BHOPAL: Disproportionate response to terrorist attacks will now be the norm, PM Modi said in Bhopal Saturday, adding, "If they fire bullets, we will retaliate with cannon balls", reports Suchandana Gupta.

Addressing a women's empowerment rally in Bhopal to mark the 300th birth anniversary of Ahilyabai Holkar, Modi said Pakistani terrorists challenged India's "nari shakti" in Pahalgam, and it spelt their destruction."Pakistani army would not even have thought that our military would reach the places we did, and annihilate terrorist camps," he said. Terrorists challenged our woman power, invited ruin: PM ModiPakistani terrorists challenged India's woman power in Pahalgam, and it spelt their destruction, PM Narendra Modi further said. "India will no longer tolerate proxy war through terrorists. We will enter their homes and strike them there," the PM said at a women's empowerment rally in Bhopal to mark the 300th birth anniversary of 18th-century queen Ahilyabai Holkar. "India is the land of tradition. And in our tradition, sindoor is symbol of women power. Even Lord Hanuman, who is immersed in devotion for Lord Rama, sports sindoor. We offer vermilion for Shakti Puja and this sindoor has now become the symbol of India's valour.

Terrorists in Pahalgam did not just shed blood of Indians, they attacked our tradition. They tried to divide our society. And most of all, they challenged India's women power.

This challenge became a disaster for the terrorists and their masters," Modi said.Some 2 lakh women attended the rally, many carrying posters showing Colonel Sofiya Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh. The PM called Operation Sindoor the "biggest and most successful anti-terror operation". "Pakistani army would never have thought that our military would reach the places we did, and annihilate terrorist camps," Modi added.