Manama, May 25 -- As part of India's global outreach regarding Operation Sindoor, BJP MP Baijayant Panda, leading an all-party delegation to Bahrain, said that India has firmly called out Pakistan's "nuclear bluff" and made it clear that future provocations will be met with strong retaliation.

Addressing prominent personalities during an interaction in Bahrain, Panda said, "We will no longer be blackmailed by their nuclear bluff... we can and will retaliate. Things will never go anywhere close to being nuclear because our intention is not hostility, our intention is to extract the cost to deter them."

He also thanked the Bahrain government for its consistent support to India and condemnation of the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack.

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