Kolkata, May 20 -- The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has decided not to send its Lok Sabha MP Yusuf Pathan as a member of the multi-party delegation that the Union Government is sending to different countries to hammer home its logic on Operation Sindoor post Pahalgam terror attack and neutralise the disinformation campaign mounted by Pakistan in its aftermath.

This, because the party thinks that the Centre has no right to unilaterally select members of other parties in such matters.

As the State BJP leaders immediately slammed the TMC for boycotting the all-party delegation Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who is also the TMC chief quickly intervened telling the media men on Monday that it was not a question of boycotting the delegation ...