Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], June 7 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party leader CR Kesavan hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday, calling him as a 'political puppet of Pakistan,' after the latter alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi 'surrendered' following a call by US President Donald Trump and agreed to a cessation of hostilities with Pakistan.

'Rahul Gandhi is speaking like a political puppet of Pakistan. He is desperately trying to piggyback Pakistan's nefarious anti-India agenda to revive his failed political career. But a frustrated Rahul Gandhi will not succeed,' Kesavan said.

He said that the remarks made by the Congress leader are being 'paraded' on Pakistani TV channels, leading to 'running of a poisonous narrative against India' and its armed forces.

'Never in political history in India have we seen somebody like Rahul Gandhi with so little intelligence, so much dishonesty, and so much arrogance,' said CR Kesavan, while adding that 'frustrated Rahul Gandhi' will not succeed.

Earlier, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi attacked the BJP-led government over his allegations of mediation by the United States in Operation Sindoor, alleging that Prime Minister Narendra Modi 'followed' Donald Trump following 'a call' by the US leader and that the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi did not budge to the US in the 1971 war.

Addressing a convention of Congress workers in Bhopal, Rahul Gandhi, who is Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, attacked the BJP-RSS and alleged that if slight pressure is exerted on them, 'they run away out of fear'.

'Now, I understand RSS-BJP well. If slight pressure is put on them, they run away out of fear. When Trump called Modiji, Modiji kya kar rahe ho, Narender-Surrender and with 'ji hazooor', Narenderji followed Trump. In the 1971 war, the Seventh Fleet came from the US Indira Gandhi said, I will do whatever I have to do. This is the difference. This is their character; all of them are like this. Since the Independence movement, they have had this habit of writing letters of surrender,' Congress leader said.

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed credit for stopping hostilities between India and Pakistan after New Delhi's effective response to Islamabad's aggression following precision strikes on terror infrastructure.

India had conducted Operation Sindoor early on May 7 and hit terror infrastructure in Pakistan and PoJK in response to the Pahalgam terror attack. (ANI)