New Delhi, May 19 -- Trinamool MP and former cricketer Yusuf Pathan will not join the Centre's Operation Sindoor outreach programme. It aims to send a multi-party delegation to over 30 countries to highlight India's stand on terrorism.

Trinamool Congress said neither Pathan nor any other TMC MP would be a part of the delegations, and claimed that the Baharampur MP's name was included without consulting the party.

Objecting to the Centre's choice of MP to represent the Trinamool Congress, the party's National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee said, "How can the Union Government decide on the representative of Trinamool?"

Banerjee said the government should have held discussions with the opposition to decide which representative a part...