India, July 28 -- Congress leader and former home minister P Chidambaram's argument that "homegrown terrorists" could be involved in the Pahalgam terror attack - and that "there is no evidence" so far that the killers came from Pakistan - has led a sharp response by the ruling BJP.

The controversy broke barely hours before Parliament was to take up a debate on Operation Sindoor, India's response to the Pahalgam terror attack.

"Once again, the Congress rushes to give a clean chit to Pakistan - this time after the Pahalgam terror attack," BJP's IT cell head Amit Malviya posted on X, with a clip from Chidambaram's interview to The Quint.

Chidambaram's son Karti posted an apparent response on X: "All those who are trigger happy & jumpy mus...