"We have already clarified that the party stands with the Army. We have always been working for the country and will keep doing the same. We have immense respect for our Army," said Congress President Kharge.
After Maurya courted a controversy alleging that certain verses of the Ramcharitmanas promoted "social discrimination", several party leaders on Monday opposed his remarks saying that his remark has nothing to do with the "party".
The Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya on Sunday, sparked a major controversy after he demanded the deletion of "insulting comments and sarcasm" targeted at particular castes and sects in Ramcharitmanas, a poem based on the epic Ramayana.
The Kanchipuram district police arrested a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) functionary for putting up derogatory remarks about Chief Minister MK Stalin and his family.
Political analyst and Congress supporter Tehseen Poonawalla on Monday, in an apparent attack on Congress leader Digvijay Singh, termed his remarks over the surgical strike a 'self-goal' for the party.
The minister's remarks came at a time when the government and the judiciary have differences over the process of appointment of judges to the higher judiciary.
Union Minister Arjun Munda on Monday slammed AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi over UK's British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)'s documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that he should respect the Supreme Court which gave a clean chit to the then Gujarat Chief Minister.
Amid the political storm over Digvijaya Singh's remarks on surgical strikes, Congress on Monday distanced itself from the party leader's statement stating that it supports "all military actions" in "national interest".
The remarks by Sharif came after Imran Khan in a recent interview claimed that former army chief General (R) Qamar Javed Bajwa had "sent two brigadiers" in the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) in the Panama Papers case that ultimately led to the disqualification of Nawaz Sharif.