‘Factually incorrect’: Centre denies posts claiming Rajnath Singh misled Lok Sabha on Op Sindoor

The Union government on Saturday said that social media posts claiming that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh told Parliament that no Indian soldiers were killed during Operation Sindoor were “deliberately misleading and factually incorrect”.

The defence ministry said that the social media posts “selectively quoted an isolated portion” of Singh’s speech in Parliament on July 28 to falsely imply that the minister claimed that no Indian soldiers were killed during the operation.

The clarification came a day after the names of five Indian Army personnel and one Indian Air Force staffer who were killed during Operation Sindoor were published in the Roll of Honour section of the National War Memorial website.

This was the first time that the government formally disclosed the identities of the military personnel killed during the operation. The deaths of the personnel had been previously acknowledged. The six personnel had been conferred with gallantry awards in August 2025.

Certain posts circulating on social media platforms have sought to misrepresent the Raksha Mantri’s address delivered on the floor of Parliament on July 28, 2025. These posts have selectively quoted an isolated portion of the speech to falsely imply that the Raksha Mantri claimed…— Ministry of Defence, Government of India (@SpokespersonMoD) June 27, 2026

After the names of the six personnel were published in the Roll of Honour, Congress...

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