Operation Sindoor: Govt plans global diplomatic outreach, Congress to join

The government is planning a major global diplomatic outreach to share with the world its own assessment of Pakistan-sponsored terror, leading to the Indian response in the form of Operation Sindoor.

The outreach, which will consist of eight groups of six to seven MPs each, is likely to leave India on May 22 and return by June 3 after covering nearly five countries in the first leg.

Top government sources have confirmed that a multi-party delegation will be sent to major countries in order to expose what official sources describe as Pakistan's fake narrative around perpetration of terror and Operation Sindoor.

Official sources told The Tribune that the exercise is part of India's efforts to state things as they are and explain to the world. The new Indian policy is that every terror attack perpetrated on its soil will be considered an act of war and will be responded to accordingly.

India has maintained from the start that Operation Sindoor was a response to the Pakistani provocation in the shape of the Pahalgam terror attack.

India has also made it clear to countries that it will give a befitting response to terrorist activities perpetrated on its soil. The government is planning to engage the political leadership and the media of major countries in order to put forth the Indian point of view.

The Congress today said it will join the delegation with party general secretary Jairam Ramesh confirming this.

Ramesh said on X, "The Prime Minister has refused to chair two all-party meetings on the Pahalgam terror attacks and Operation Sindoor.

The Prime Minister has not agreed to call a special session of Parliament that the Indian National Congress has been demanding to demonstrate a collective will. The Prime Minister and his party have been defaming the Indian National Congress continuously even as it has called for unity and solidarity."

He said now suddenly the PM has decided to send multi-party delegations abroad to explain India's stand on terrorism from Pakistan.

"The Indian National Congress always takes a position in the supreme national interest and never politicises national security issues like the BJP does. Hence, the INC will definitely be a part of these delegations," he said.

The names of MPs who will be part of the delegation are being finalised by the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs in consultation with the Ministry of External Affairs.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and AIMIM leader Asadudin Owaisi will be part of the delegation, sources say, adding that Tharoor was likely to lead one of them.