India's Operation Sindoor outreach with all-party delegation: Who will brief which country - Full list

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India's Operation Sindoor outreach with all-party delegation: Who will brief which country - Full list

Leaders who are part of the seven all-party delegations. From left (Baijayant Panda, Asaduddin Owaisi, Supriya Sule and Shashi Tharoor)

NEW DELHI: In a significant diplomatic outreach following Operation Sindoor, the central government is set to dispatch seven all-party delegations of Members of Parliament to key global capitals beginning May 23, aiming to present a united front against Pakistan-sponsored terrorism.A total of 51 political leaders, including parliamentarians and former ministers from various parties, and 8 former ambassadors, will form seven delegations that will visit several world capitals to present India’s stance on combating terrorism in the context of Operation Sindoor. The delegations will be led by Baijayant Panda, Ravi Shankar Prasad (both BJP), Sanjay Kumar Jha (JDU), Shrikant Eknath Shinde (Shiv Sena), Shashi Tharoor (Congress), Kanimozhi Karunanidhi (DMK), and Supriya Sule (NCP-SP). They are scheduled to visit 32 countries and the European Union headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Led by senior MPs including Shashi Tharoor, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Sanjay Kumar Jha, Baijayant Panda, Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, Supriya Sule, and Shrikant Eknath Shinde, it is set to be a 10-day outreach mission, coordinated by Parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju. The union minister, soon after the announcement of out-reach program, released a full list of who'll go where.

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Here’s the list of MPs & delegations with details where they'll go:Group 1: Visiting- Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Algeria

Baijayant Panda MP, BJP (Leader)
Nishikant Dubey MP, BJP
Phangnon Konyak MP, BJP
Rekha Sharma MP, BJP
Asaduddin Owaisi MP, AIMIM
Satnam Singh Sandhu MP, Nominated
Ghulam Nabi Azad
Amb. Harsh Shringla

Group 2: Visiting- UK, France, Germany, EU, Italy, and Denmark

Ravi Shankar Prasad MP, BJP (Leader)
Daggubati Purandeswari MP, TDP
Priyanka Chaturvedi MP, Shiv Sena (UBT)
Ghulam Ali Khatana MP, Nominated
Amar Singh MP, INC
Samik Bhattacharya MP, BJP
MJ Akbar
Amb Pankaj Saran

Group 3: Visiting- Indonesia, Malaysia, Republic of Korea, Japan, and Singapore

Sanjay Kumar Jha MP, JDU (Leader)
Aparajita Sarangi MP, BJP
Yusuf Pathan MP, AITC
Brij Lal MP, BJP
John Brittas MP, CPI (M)
Pradan Baruah MP, BJP
Hemang Joshi MP, BJP
Salman Khurshid
Amb Mohan Kumar

Group 4: Visiting- UAE, Liberia, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sierra Leone

Shrikant Eknath Shinde MP, Shiv Sena (Leader)
Bansuri Swaraj MP, BJP
ET Mohammed Basheer MP, IUML
Atul Garg MP, BJP
Sasmit Patra MP, BJD
Manan Kumar Mishra MP, BJP
SS Ahluwalia
Amb. Sujan Chinoy

Group 5: Visiting- USA, Panama, Guyana, Brazil, and Colombia

Shashi Tharoor MP, INC (Leader)
Shambhavi MP, LJP (Ram Vilas)
Sarfaraz Ahmad MP, JMM
GM Harish Balayogi MP, TDP
Shashank Mani Tripathi MP, BJP
Bhubaneswar Kalita MP, BJP
Milind Murli Deora MP, Shiv Sena
Amb. Taranjit Singh Sandhu
Tejasvi Surya MP, BJP

Group 6: Visiting- Spain, Greece, Slovenia, Latvia, and Russia

Kanimozhi Karunanidhi MP, DMK (Leader)
Rajeev Rai MP, SP
Mian Altaf Ahmad MP, NC
Capt. Brijesh Chowta MP, BJP
Prem Chand Gupta MP, RJD
Ashok Kumar Mittal MP, AAP
Amb. Manjeev S. Puri
Amb. Jawed Ashraf

Group 7: Visiting- Egypt, Qatar, Ethiopia, and South Africa

Supriya Sule MP, NCP (SCP) (Leader)
Rajiv Pratap Rudy MP, BJP
Vikramjeet Singh Sahney MP, AAP
Manish Tewari MP, INC
Anurag Singh Thakur MP, BJP
Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu MP, TDP
Anand Sharma
V. Muraleedharan
Amb. Syed Akbaruddin

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