Centre draws up all-party delegations to spread Operation Sindoor message across the globe

Many absorption MPs person received calls from Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju, inviting them to beryllium portion of the delegations successful “national interest.” Among the MPs the authorities is said to beryllium successful interaction with are Congress’s Shashi Tharoor, Salman Khurshid, Manish Tewari and Amar Singh, NCP(SP)’s Supriya Sule, TMC’s Sudip Bandyopadhyay, AIMIM’s Asaduddin Owaisi, DMK’s Kanimozhi; BJD’s Sasmit Patra, IUML’s E T Mohd Basheer, CPM’s John Brittas and BJP’s B J Panda and Anurag Thakur.

While Khurshid is simply a erstwhile External Affairs Minister, Tharoor heads the Parliamentary Standing Committee connected External Affairs.

Talking to The Indian Express, Khurshid said helium received a telephone from the authorities Thursday nighttime and conveyed it to the Congress leadership, which volition instrumentality a call. “It is an all-party effort. All enactment groups. So I ideate that the enactment volition instrumentality attraction of it. They astir apt volition get successful interaction with the party. I person conveyed to the enactment that I person received a message. It is the prerogative of the enactment who they send,” Khurshid said.

In a station connected X, his enactment workfellow Jairam Ramesh wrote, “The Prime Minister has refused to seat 2 all-party meetings connected the Pahalgam panic attacks and Operation Sindoor. The Prime Minister has not agreed to telephone a peculiar league of Parliament that the Indian National Congress has been demanding to show a corporate volition and reiterate the solution passed unanimously by Parliament connected February 22, 1994… Now abruptly the PM has decided to nonstop multi-party delegations overseas to explicate India’s basal connected coercion from Pakistan. The Indian National Congress ever takes a presumption successful the ultimate nationalist involvement and ne'er politicises nationalist information issues similar the BJP does. Hence, the INC volition decidedly beryllium a portion of these delegations.”

“Yesterday nighttime I got a telephone from Mr Rijiju. He said respective delegations are going to respective countries to speech astir Pakistan’s manus successful coercion successful India (and) the inheritance of the contiguous situation. These delegations volition permission astir May 22-23 and instrumentality successful the archetypal week of June aft visiting a fewer countries. I person not been sounded retired wherever I americium going, but I was told the MEA volition get successful interaction with me,” 1 of the MPs, who did not privation to beryllium identified, said. Another MP besides said helium had been contacted by the authorities but was awaiting details.

The authorities is readying to nonstop peculiar envoys to overseas countries to marque a lawsuit astir however India is agreed and what it suffered arsenic a effect of the violent onslaught successful Pahalgam. According to sources, the authorities is reasoning of putting unneurotic abstracted groups, chiefly drafting from parliamentary lasting committees to statesman with, who tin efficaciously represent that India is agreed aft coming nether onslaught from Pakistan-sponsored violent organisations.

Sources said they volition caput to Europe and Gulf countries to statesman with.

This is, successful part, besides to efficaciously pass that India was attacked first, and it pushed backmost and gave a retaliatory effect arsenic it carried retired strikes successful 9 panic locations crossed Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

Similar exercises person taken spot successful 1994 and again successful 2008, aft the attacks connected India from Pakistan-sponsored violent groups and networks.

The thought is to nonstop five-six delegations to assorted countries to explicate New Delhi’s presumption connected coercion emanating from Pakistan, giving details of the Pahalgam panic onslaught and different acts of panic committed against India, Operation Sindoor, and the diplomatic initiatives taken by the authorities against Pakistan.

The determination is reminiscent of the P V Narasimha Rao government’s determination to nonstop a delegation headed by past absorption person A B Vajpayee to be a peculiar league of the United Nations Human Rights Commission successful Geneva, wherever a Pakistan-sponsored solution to censure India connected its grounds of quality rights successful Jammu & Kashmir was successfully thwarted.

The determination is besides important from a home governmental constituent of view, since it comes astatine a clip erstwhile the Congress is attacking the authorities implicit the relation played by the US successful bringing astir a truce betwixt India and Pakistan. Accusing the BJP of politicising Operation Sindoor — BJP leaders person been participating successful Tiranga rallies — the Congress has besides decided to instrumentality retired Jai Hind rallies successful a twelve cities. The Congress has besides questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s determination to convene a gathering of NDA main ministers to little them astir Operation Sindoor, asking wherefore lone NDA main ministers and not each main ministers were called.