Varanasi, Aug. 2 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday took a jibe at Congress and Samajwadi Party for raising questions over Operation Sindoor and alleged that they could not handle the pain Pakistan is going through and are "crying along with them."

Addressing a public meeting in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi, he said, "Everyone understands that Pakistan is upset. But Congress and the Samajwadi Party (SP) cannot handle the pain that Pakistan is going through. There, the Aaka (masters) of the terrorists are crying, and here, Congress and SP are crying, seeing the condition of terrorists."

On his first visit to Varanasi following the Pahalgam terrorist attack in April, PM Modi said that those who attack India "will not survive even in ...