Bengaluru, 6 May 

The Karnataka Congress posted a Mahatma Gandhi's quote emphasising peace on its social media handle and deleted it later.

"The most powerful weapon of mankind is peace - Mahatma Gandhi," the Congress posted on X, Wednesday, but later deleted. 

The post went up hours after India carried out air strike at nine locations inside Pakistan as part of its 'Operation Sindoor.'

The party later lauded the Indian Air Force in another post.

"The Indian Air Force, widely recognised as one of the world's strongest air forces gave a befitting reply to the cowardly #PahalgamTerroristAttack. We stand with the govt, we stand with our security forces," Congress said.

The BJP State chief Vijayendra flayed the Congress, saying every Indian welcomes India's retaliatory action. "We feel proud and we stand by Indian soldiers but unfortunately the Congress party in Karnataka is advocating peace at this juncture," he told reporters here.

He termed Congress' deleted post shocking.

"Every Indian is feeling proud about the move by our Indian soldiers. The stand by the Congress party is very unfortunate, and I demand an apology from the Congress party to the people of this country," Vijayendra said.