NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday said the opposition INDIA bloc should have “boycotted” the Union government’s move to send all-party delegations to different countries to put across India’s resolve to tackle terrorism against the backdrop of “Operation Sindoor” in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and the subsequent military clashes with the neighbouring country.“There was no need to send delegations which are funded by the government. What will they do? We have our ambassadors abroad. They are doing their job. INDIA bloc should have boycotted it. They are getting into the trap laid by the government. You are going to defend the sins and crime committed by the government and not the country,” news agency PTI quoted Raut, whose party is an INDIA bloc member, as saying.“There was no need to send the delegations in a hurried fashion. The opposition has made a demand to hold a special session on Operation Sindoor and Pahalgam attack. The government is not ready to hold discussion on it,” he added.Raut, whose party and Rajya Sabha colleague Priyanka Chaturvedi is a member of one such delegation, further asked what “deal” US President Donald Trump struck with India which made it agree to an understanding to stop all firings and military actions on land, air and sea.Trump has been claiming his administration stopped a “nuclear conflict” between India and Pakistan. According to the US president, he told the south Asian neighbours America would do a “lot of trade” with them if they ended hostilities.India has consistently maintained there was no third-party involvement and the ceasefire was reached after Pakistan’s DGMO (director general of military operations) contacted his Indian counterpart seeking cessation of hostilities.On the intervening night of May 9 and 10, the Indian Air Force destroyed 11 of Pakistan’s 12 airbases after a failed attempt by the latter to attack 26 locations in India.The Indian armed forces conducted Operation Sindoor as retaliation to the April 22 Pahalgam terrorist attack, in which Pakistan-backed terrorists shot dead 26 male tourists.The all-party delegationsFifty-one politicians, parliamentarians and ex-ministers cutting across party lines will be part of the seven delegations. Four of these will be led by leaders of the ruling BJP and its allies – Baijayant Panda, Ravi Shankar Prasad (both BJP), Sanjay Kumar Jha (JDU), Shrikant Shinde (Shiv Sena). Shashi Tharoor (Congress), Kanimozhi (DMK) and Supriya Sule (NCP-SP), whose parties are among the INDIA bloc constituents, will head a group each. The teams will visit a total of 32 countries and the European Union headquarters at Brussels in Belgium.