Asaduddin Owaisi compliments armed forces for Operation Sindoor, Rahul Gandhi extends 'full support’ at all-party meet

All-party meeting: Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi said the Congress has extended “full support” to the Centre on Operation Sindoor at an all-party meeting held on May 8. AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, who also attended the meeting, said he complimented the Indian armed forces for the action to destroy terrorist hideouts in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

Asaduddin Owaisi suggested that the US should designate the Resistance Front (TRF) as a foreign terrorist organisation. “In today's all-party meeting, I complimented our armed forces and the Government of India for conducting Operation Sindoor,” the Hyderabad MP said.

"I also said that we should run an international campaign against TRF, and the UN Security Council should designate it as a terror organisation. We also need to ask the United States to designate TRF as a foreign terrorist organisation in the country," AIMIM chief added, according to a PTI report.

Acceding to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge's statement, Rahul Gandhi said, “We gave full support, and what Kharge ji said is right — there are certain things that shouldn't be discussed. Everyone simply gave their support.”

Meanwhile, Mallikarjun Kharge said the Opposition is with the government in this moment of crisis while referring to the Pahalgam terror attack and subsequent ceasefire violations along the Line of Control.

After the success of Operation Sindoor, the government called an all-party meeting in which key leaders were briefed about the May 7 counter-terrorism action of the Centre against Pakistan.

The all-party meeting chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh was attended by top Bharatiya Janata Party leaders, including Home Minister Amit Shah, Foreign Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, party president JP Nadda and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

Besides Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge, Sandip Bandyopadhyay of the Trinamool Congress and DMK's TR Baalu were also present at the meeting. Other opposition leaders that joined the meeting included Ram Gopal Yadav of the Samajwadi Party, Sanjay Singh of the AAP, Shiv Sena (UBT)'s Sanjay Raut, NCP (SP)'s Supriya Sule, BJD's Sasmit Patra, CPI(M)'s John Brittas, JD(U) leader Sanjay Jha and Union minister and LJP (Ram Vilas) leader Chirag Paswan.