India, May 30 -- As tensions between Congress and its leader Shashi Tharoor escalated on Thursday, the party's general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala tried to pacify frayed tempers, saying there is no acrimony among its leaders. Randeep Surjewala, however, erred in claiming that surgical strikes against Pakistan were held for the first time in 2016.

Addressing the media, Surjewala said Shashi Tharoor's recent remarks about surgical strikes, made as the leader of an all-party delegation to expose Pakistan, were factually incorrect and that the Congress had only corrected the record by pointing out that the surgical strikes and also at other dens of terrorists "were regularly executed" during Congress-led UPA government to give a befett...