Gurugram, June 27 -- Sharmistha Mukherjee, daughter of former President Pranab Mukherjee, on Saturday said the opposition should have stood firmly behind the government during Operation Sindoor, asserting that matters of national security should rise above party politics.

Speaking on the opposition's response to Operation Sindoor, Sharmistha Mukherjee told ANI in an exclusive interview, "When Operation Sindoor happened, the whole of the opposition should have stood beside him (PM Modi) because it's not a question of party politics. But I think the Congress behaved very childishly, and the Congress leadership went after one of their own leaders, Shashi Tharoor, which was, I think, extremely mean and immature."

She said political parties ...