New Delhi [India], May 3 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Sambit Patra on Saturday launched a scathing attack against the Congress after its leader Charanjit Singh Channi demanded proof for the surgical strikes carried out by the armed forces, labelling the party's working committee (CWC) as the Pakistan Working Committee.

'From the outside, they are the Congress Working Committee (CWC), but from the inside, they are PWC (Pakistan Working Committee),' Patra said in a press conference.

He said that it was the planning of the opposition party to hold a parallel press conference and cast doubts over the surgical strike carried out by the armed forces in retaliation against the 2019 Pulwama attack.

'CWC meeting was held yesterday, and some proposals were passed. Hathi ke daant dikhane ke aur, khane ke aur (A wolf in sheep's clothing). Right after that, a press conference was held, and former Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi said that the surgical strike had never been conducted after the Pulwama terrorist attack,' Patra said.

He further accused the Congress of 'providing oxygen' to Pakistan terrorists and the Army.

'This is a planned vision of Congress, where, on the one hand, Kharge will say something about the resolution, and on the other hand, Channi will hold a parallel conference and doubt the surgical strikes. Congress does not leave any opportunity to provide oxygen to the Pakistani terrorists and the Pakistani Army,' Patra added.

The BJP leader intensified his attack against the opposition party and its leader, Gaurav Gogoi, claiming that the Congress leader stayed in Islamabad for 15 days.

'In an interview recently, I heard Himanta Biswa Sarma say that a senior leader of the Congress party crossed the Attari border and stayed in Pakistan for 15 days. He did not take a flight to protect himself from getting caught and crossed from the Attari border. He stayed in Islamabad for 15 days, and Himanta Biswa Sarma also said that his children are also not residents of India,' Patra said.

The remarks made by former Punjab Chief Minister and Congress MP Charanjit Singh Channi stoked controversy by demanding proof of the surgical strikes carried out by the Indian armed forces in Pakistan territory in the past under the BJP government in the centre. Casting doubts over the strikes, the former Punjab CM said that he has always demanded proof.

'To date, I could not find where the (surgical) strike took place, where men were killed at that time, and where this happened in Pakistan. Will we not find out if a bomb is dropped in our country? They say that they did a surgical strike in Pakistan. Nothing had happened. Nowhere was a surgical strike seen. Nobody came to know...I have always demanded (proof). But today, people's wounds need to be tended to. We demand that the Government do something. Tell people who they (perpetrators of the Pahalgam Terrorist Attack) are and punish them,' Channi said at a press conference. (ANI)