Hindi → English transcript

Yesterday, the Prime Minister's message to the nation

Yesterday I also expressed my feelings through the media

But the country had many expectations from the Prime Minister

Yesterday his message to the nation was disheartening

For the first time, Pakistan has used the sea route to facilitate terrorist operations

Earlier, the Marine Police used to take the fishermen, imprison them, but return the boats

Now their Marine Police are seizing our boats

And I had said one year ago that the boats they are taking

Those boats would be misused against the country and would cause harm to it

And so it is necessary to take such boats back

And the concern I had expressed has, unfortunately, come true today

Pakistan's Marine Police pick up our fishermen and take away our boats

And this is being used to carry out attacks on India

This is such a serious matter that the international maritime community will also have to consider it seriously.

It is also clearly visible that the terrorists have preferred these locations by making US citizens, British citizens, and Israeli citizens primary targets.

In a way, they have made Mumbai and India the focal point of an international conflict, and the country must take this grave matter seriously as well.

I have urged the Prime Minister to immediately call a meeting of all chief ministers, to convene a separate meeting of the coastal states, and to provide greater security to the coastline, whether by the navy or the coast guard—

So we will also have to devise a strategy to strengthen it.

Thank you very much, I—