India, May 22 -- Senior Congress leader and former union minister Anand Sharma welcomed the Centre's move to send all-party MPs delegations to several countries as part of a diplomatic effort to convey India's position on cross-border terrorism from Pakistan after Operation Sindoor.

Anand Sharma is the second Congress leader, after Shashi Tharoor, to praise the initiative even as the grand old party criticised it as a "diversionary tactic" despite supporting the NDA government in the immediate aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22 and four-day military action under Operation Sindoor.

Speaking to The Indian Express, Anand Sharma termed the diplomatic outreach an "important initiative" necessary to "sensitise global public o...