New Delhi, May 29 -- Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala has said that party MP Shashi Tharoor's recent remarks about surgical strikes, made as leader of all-party delegation, were factually incorrect and that Congress party had only corrected the record by pointing out that the surgical strikes in Pakistan and also at other dens of terrorists "were regularly executed" during Congress-led UPA government to give a befetting reply to terrorists.

He said surgical strikes had been carried out by the armed forces and when the Congress-led UPA government was in power.

"Those instances have been detailed in the past by the AICC Communication department. Mr Shashi Tharoor, in his book, has also spoken about these surgical strikes during Con...