Operation Sindoor, India’s retaliatory strike after the Pahalgam terror attack, will rightly dominate parliamentary proceedings this week. It will allow elected representatives to do what they rarely manage — substantively engage with national security issues. The debate should honour the courage of the armed forces and reaffirm support for their modernisation drive. It must also pose difficult questions about how such a breach occurred, what intelligence gaps allowed it, and whether existing oversight structures are adequate to address the threats India faces.Pride and accountability must coexist in this discussion. Democratic forums are strengthened, not weakened, when security decisions are examined with rigour rather than treated as mere ceremonial displays of unanimity.
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