Former external affairs minister Salman Khurshid is the only Congress MP on the Union government’s list for Operation Sindoor’s global outreach who has yet to confirm his participation, sources said. The government had named Shashi Tharoor, Manish Tewari, Amar Singh, and Khurshid as part of the multi-party delegation. Tharoor, Tewari, and Singh have already confirmed their participation.The seven delegations, comprising 59 leaders, will travel abroad between May 24 and June 3 to brief foreign governments and institutions on India’s response to cross-border terrorism under Operation Sindoor.The Congress had proposed the names of Anand Sharma, Gaurav Gogoi, Nasir Hussain, and Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring for the outreach, but only Sharma was included in the final list approved by the Ministry of External Affairs.Reacting to the development, Warring accused the BJP-led government of trying to “steal credit” for the armed forces’ achievements. He also criticised External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s disclosure that Pakistan was forewarned before the strikes, saying it allowed top terrorists Hafiz Saeed and Masood Azhar to escape.Warring said that although the defence forces struck the targets with precision and destroyed the terrorists’ headquarters, both Saeed and Azhar had already moved out. “Isn’t this a betrayal of the country?” he asked.
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