India, May 18 -- The government's diplomatic outreach is not a political mission, but an attempt to articulate India's point of view on the Pahalgam terror attack and subsequent armed conflict with Pakistan, Union parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju told Smriti Kak Ramachandran in an interview on Saturday. Edited excerpts:

How and when did the Centre decide to send delegates to other countries to brief about Operation Sindoor?

We felt there is a need to project India's voice to the world. This is not a political mission, but a national one. Leaders from various parties will be India's representatives... They will give details about Operation Sindoor (India's military strikes targeting terrorist infrastructure in territories cont...