New Delhi, May 7 -- Congress leader and Karnataka Deputy CM, DK Shivakumar, on Wednesday applauded Indian Armed Forces' Operation Sindoor which struck nine terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK). The Congress leader also called the operation as "a befitting reply" to Pahalgam attack.

In a post on X, Shivakumar wrote, "#OperationSindoor is a befitting reply to the cowardly Pahalgam terror attack. We stand with the govt, we stand with our security forces. Jai Hind."

Earlier, in an X post, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge mentioned India's "unflinching" national policy against terrorism and praised the armed forces' efforts.

Kharge's X post read, "India has an unflinching National Policy against all f...