New Delhi, May 7 -- Slamming Mallikarjun Kharge for alleging that Prime Minister Narendra Modi cancelled his trip to Jammu and Kashmir due to an adverse intelligence days before the Pahalgam attack last month, the BJP said the Congress president could not have made a more irresponsible comment at a time of rising tensions with Pakistan.

BJP leader and former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Kharge has joined the "brigade" of his party leaders making controversial remarks on the issue of national security, instead of controlling them.

"What kind of comments is he making! On the one hand, he says in the (all-party) meeting that they are standing with the country, on the other, he is trying to weaken the country," Prasad told reporter...