From Galwan to Sindoor: How Modi’s Policies Failed India
Key takeaways
- Add ARY News on Google AAResize As Modi becomes India’s longest-serving elected Prime Minister, his foreign policy record demands a reckoning.
- International congratulations arrived from Rome, Canberra, and Kuala Lumpur.
- The most instructive place to begin is not with Operation Sindoor but with the Galwan Valley on the night of June 15, 2020.
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize As Modi becomes India’s longest-serving elected Prime Minister, his foreign policy record demands a reckoning.
When Narendra Modi surpassed Jawaharlal Nehru’s record on June 10, 2026 — completing 4,399 consecutive days as India’s elected Prime Minister — the celebrations inside the Bharatiya Janata Party were predictably thunderous. International congratulations arrived from Rome, Canberra, and Kuala Lumpur. The optics, as always under this government, were immaculate. The substance, as twelve years of evidence now confirms, is another matter entirely.
The most instructive place to begin is not with Operation Sindoor but with the Galwan Valley on the night of June 15, 2020. More than twenty Indian soldiers were killed in hand-to-hand combat with Chinese forces — the first military casualties on the Line of Actual Control in forty-five years. More than seventy were injured; nearly a hundred, including officers, were reportedly taken captive. Modi’s response was to tell the nation that ‘nobody has intruded into our border, neither is anybody there now, nor have our posts been captured.’ Satellite imagery and retired army generals said otherwise. Congress President Sonia Gandhi asked pointedly: if no incursion had occurred, how did more than twenty soldiers lose their lives?