India, May 24 -- The External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is in the eye of a major political storm following a controversial video, which showed him as stating that New Delhi had alerted Islamabad regarding its intentions to strike at the terrorist camps, giving its military the option to stay out.

The Congress and the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, have latched on to this utterance in order to question the logic behind making such an irresponsible and unmeasured comment while speaking about Operation Sindoor to news agencies.

The allegation is that by sounding Pakistan about the impending strikes, the minister had compromised national security and had given sufficient time to the enemy country to devise its...