“Operation Sindoor”: Indian govt ignoring soldiers’ sacrifices
Gazette notification issued to give awards only to officers
New Delhi: Modi’s Indian government has once again, promoting its false propaganda, betrayed the soldiers who made sacrifices in “Operation Sindoor” by issuing a gazette notification to give awards only to officers.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the Indian government is awarding medals to the wrong people to manufacture a victory narrative around weapons and air-defence systems (Rafale, AD systems, etc.), turning state honours into advertising for hardware rather than recognition of real service.
India’s Operation Sindoor narrative is drenched in hypocrisy and deceit, exposing a disgusting pattern of institutional neglect, exploitation, and outright betrayal of its own rank-and-file soldiers who laid down their lives in the line of duty. While the Indian government and military establishment shamelessly parade a pantheon of decorated officers basking in gallantry medals, the true heroes, the enlisted soldiers who paid the ultimate price remain sidelined, forgotten, and dishonored.
The Indian government’s much-hyped gazette notification celebrating Operation Sindoor exposes a shameful double standard in the nation’s treatment of its fallen heroes. While officers such as Colonel Koshank Lamba and Lieutenant Colonel Sushil Bisht are showered with Vir Chakra and Kirti Chakra medals and hailed as the faces of “strategic brilliance,” the real heroes—the soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice are erased from history.
Lance Naik Dinesh Kumar of the 42nd Battalion Rashtriya Rifles, Mudavath Murali Naik of the Jammu and Kashmir Rifles, Havildar Jhantu Ali Shaikh of the Para (Special Forces), and Sergeant Surendra Kumar Moga, an Indian Air Force Medical Assistant, all died bravely during Operation Sindoor. Yet their names are absent from the Defence Ministry’s Gazette, unmentioned in national announcements, and denied the gallantry awards that officers flaunt in parades and media shows.
This is not oversight, it is institutional betrayal. India’s military honors system has become a political propaganda tool, commodifying sacrifice and manufacturing heroes to serve power narratives.
The selective glorification of command while neglecting the rank-and-file exposes a moral and ethical collapse within India’s defence establishment. These forgotten martyrs are victims of a system that kills them twice first on the battlefield, then in memory. Their silence haunts the conscience of a nation that glorifies valor only when it serves its image.
This hypocritical policy of the Indian government is not only a betrayal of its own army, but also aims to divert the attention of the public from the real issues. This propaganda of the Modi government has once again proven that the Indian government is using the sacrifices of its soldiers merely for political show and there is no truth in the fact that this operation was a historic success.
