New Delhi [India], May 3 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla on Saturday launched a blistering attack on MP Charanjit Singh Channi, after the latter had stoked controversy as he claimed that he has 'not found proof where surgical strike took place.'

'Congress MP Charanjit Singh Channi, who is known to be quite close to Rahul Gandhi, has said in a press conference that he has not seen proof of a surgical strike. The armed forces had announced it. Today, when the whole country is demanding and standing with the forces and saying that terrorists should get a strict punishment, just like the Balakot surgical strike had happened, but Congress is hurting the morale of the forces,' Poonawalla told ANI in the national capital.

Calling for the Indian National Congress (INC) to be renamed as 'Anti-National Congress (ANC),' he added, 'In the all-party meeting, they say that they are with the government and the armed forces and outside the meeting, on the instructions of Rahul Gandhi, they put vote back above the nation and they will give Pakistan a clean chit on the Pahalgam terrorist attack.'

He claimed that the morale of the Indian armed forces is being attacked at the direction of the party's Parliamentary Party chairperson, Sonia Gandhi and party leader Rahul Gandhi.

'There is a direct attack on the armed forces at the direction of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. One after the other, there have been statements giving a clean chit to Pakistan, from Robert Vadra (businessman) to Siddaramaiah (Karnataka CM). Just like Dinesh Gundurao. The Congress social media posts the 'sar tan se juda,' there has been no investigation,' the BJP spokesperson said.

He also accused Rahul Gandhi of undermining Indian institutions during his visits abroad.

'There is no use to this, this is not support. This is the Congress' support to Pakistan, Rahul Gandhi has said before itself that he wants to fight the Indian state. He goes and attacks and questions Indian institutions in a foreign land, and his politicians are trying to break the morale of the armed forces by giving these statements,' the BJP spokesperson added.

On May 2, Congress MP and former Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi cast doubts over Balakot surgical strikes, saying that he has always demanded proof for it.

Channi had said in a press conference, 'Till 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.' (ANI)