"When on a mission against terrorism to carry India’s message to the world, it's distressing that people at home are calculating political allegiances. Is it so difficult to be patriotic?" tweeted Salman Khurshid, Congress veteran and former External Affairs Minister.
Khurshid is part of the delegation led by JD-U MP Sanjay Jha.
The delegation also includes Aparajita Sarangi, Abhishek Banerjee, Brij Lal, John Brittas, Pradan Baruah, Hemang Joshi and former ambassador Mohan Kumar.
Khurshid's remarks came days after his party colleague Udit Raj slammed party MP Shashi Tharoor over his recent remarks in favour of the government and called him a "super spokesperson of the BJP".
Other Congress leaders such as Jairam Ramesh and Pavan Khera have also slammed Tharoor directly or indirectly.
Khurshid's remarks also came days after he praised the removal of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir in Indonesia.
Interestingly, Khurshid's tweet also came days after his party colleague Jairam Ramesh made a controversial remark over the all-party delegations, saying that the "terrorists were roaming and MPs were also roaming".
His remarks drew the ire of the BJP, which called the Congress leader's remarks "atrocious".
Explaining his tweet later, Khurshid said there was a need to speak in one voice in favour of the nation irrespective of political differences.
"People keep saying, 'What are you doing in a delegation where there are people from the BJP? What are you doing there?' What are we doing here?
No matter which party you are from, today what is needed is a single voice to speak in favour of the nation and that is what we are doing here," Khurshid said.
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