To Corner Pak Globally, Centre Plans All-Party Delegations To Spread Word On Op Sindoor

TO TAKE INDIA'S message after Operation Sindoor to the world, the government is planning to send all-party parliamentary delegations to several countries in the coming days.

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Sources said the government has reached out to several opposition MPs, inviting them to be part of teams that will be dispatched to world capitals.

The Ministry of External Affairs is working with the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha secretariats to prepare lists of MPs who will be part of the exercise.

Many opposition MPs have received calls from Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju, inviting them to be part of the delegations in "national interest." Among the MPs the government is said to be in touch 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 ET Mohd Basheer, CPM's John Brittas and BJP's BJ Panda and Anurag Thakur.

While Khurshid is a former External Affairs Minister, Tharoor heads the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs.