New Delhi, May 19 -- Ali Khan Mahmudabad's arrest over a post on Operation Sindoor has drawn sharp criticism from both the Congress and the Samajwadi Party (SP). Congress leader Pawan Khera, in a long post, criticised the academic's arrest for a "thoughtful" post against violence as he highlighted that some BJP ministers have faced no action for "demeaning" the armed forces, terming it as the ruling government's "double standards".

Pawan Khera said when "writers, professors and critics are branded enemies, the real enemy is democracy itself."

"His only mistake is that he wrote this post. His other mistake is his name," Congress' media and publicity department head Pawan Khera said, "This is the state of New India under the Modi governme...