Operation Sindoor Declassified: Modi Rejected Army's 'Op Tulip Garden' Name

A very bad attack happened in a beautiful place called Pahalgam, and it made people in India very sad and very angry.

India's leaders decided to respond, and the army had a plan with a name — 'Operation Tulip Garden.'

But the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, chose a different name: 'Operation Sindoor.'

Sindoor is the red powder that married women in India wear in their hair, and Modi said the name was to remember the brave women whose husbands were killed in the attack.

Before the mission, the military made a long list of about 34 places it could strike.

After studying the list very carefully, the leaders chose only nine places, so the strikes would be very precise.

They wanted to hit terrorist camps but not hurt ordinary people who had nothing to do with the attack.

The Prime Minister approved the plan on April 30, and then the army and the air force carried it out.

The army struck seven places, and the air force struck two more, called Bahawalpur and Muridke.

Using one name for the whole mission helped all of India's forces work together as one team.