India, May 30 -- The controversy surrounding the opposition's claims of surgical strikes, amid a national sentiment for the armed forces following Operation Sindoor, escalated after the Congress on Friday shared a video claiming actions against Pakistan during the earlier UPA regime at the Centre.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, leading an all-party delegation to the US, Panama, Colombia, Brazil and Guyana, a day ago had remarked that "for the first time, India breached the Line of Control to conduct a surgical strike", triggering a war of words between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress.

Sharing the video on social media platform X, the Congress said, "No Noise. No PR. Only Decisive Actions 6 Surgical Strikes Were Car...