NEW DELHI: Former external affairs minister Salman Khurshid on Friday showed his displeasure over opposition’s remarks on MPs supporting the Centre with his statements on Operation Sindoor.While interacting with the Indian community in Indonesia’s Jakarta, Khurshid said that all-party MP delegations are not supporting each other’s parties but a “simple idea called India.““India is waiting to be great. Nobody can distract us or interfere with that passage of ours. That is why it is important for us to show our strength. If there is any sense in Pakistan, they will understand our only demand: give up terrorism,” the Congress leader said.“Some of my colleagues are not from the ruling party. The ruling party could have come alone to bring this message, but they came with us to give India’s message… However, sadly, this is not what we hear from India. Somebody is saying that he is supporting the BJP or the Congress, but I am proud that we are here together because we are not supporting , we are supporting one simple idea called India,” he added.This comes after Shahshi Tharoor and Khurshid found themselves in crosshairs with Congress for their remarks during the trip.Earlier in the day, Khurshid, who is in one of the 7 all-party delegations to expose Pakistan post Pahalgam terror attack, said that prosperity and normalcy have returned to Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370.“Kashmir had a major problem for a long time. Much of that was reflected in the thinking of the government in an article called 370 of the Constitution, which somehow gave an impression that it was separate from the rest of the country. But Article 370 was abrogated and it was finally put to an end,” Khurshid said while addressing the Indonesian think Tanks and Academia“Subsequently, there was an election with 65% participation. There’s an elected government in Kashmir today and therefore for people to want to undo everything that has happened, the prosperity that has come to Kashmir,” he added.Earlier, Tharoor, currently leading a multi-party delegation to countries including Panama and the US, had said that India conducted its first cross-border surgical strike in 2016, a claim seen by many in the party as undermining similar operations during the UPA era.Facing flak from Congress leaders such as Pawan Khera and Udit Raj, Tharoor defended himself in a strongly worded post on X from Panama City, clarifying that his remarks specifically referred to responses to terrorist attacks—not to prior wars or conflicts.“After a long and successful day in Panama, I have to wind up at midnight here with departure for Bogota, Colombia in six hours, so I don’t really have time for this — but anyway: For those zealots fulminating about my supposed ignorance of Indian valour across the LoC: in the past,” Tharoor said in a post on X.“I was clearly and explicitly speaking only about reprisals for terrorist attacks and not about previous wars and my remarks were preceded by a reference to the several attacks that have taken place in recent years alone, during which previous Indian responses were both restrained and constrained by our responsible respect for the LoC and the IB,” he added.The controversy erupted after Tharoor reportedly stated in Panama that India breached the LoC “for the first time” during the 2016 surgical strike. This prompted a sharp response from his party colleague Udit Raj, who accused Tharoor of denigrating Congress’s legacy. “How could you denigrate the golden history of Congress by saying that before PM Modi, India never crossed LoC and International border?” Raj questioned.He went so far as to suggest Tharoor be made a “super spokesperson of the BJP.”Pawan Khera also weighed in, posting a screenshot from Tharoor’s book, where the MP had previously criticised the Modi government for politicising the 2016 strikes while acknowledging that the Congress had authorised several such operations in the past without publicising them.