Lt Gen Deependra Singh Hooda (retd), who oversaw the 2016 surgical strikes, is set to join a panel led by the Congress party, on national security.

Hooda will be the head of a task force set up by party chief Rahul Gandhi. The task force will prepare a vision paper for the country, which will be prepared in consultation with a select group of experts.

Lt Gen Hooda will manage a team of retired police and Army officers to prepare comprehensive report on the national security challenges. He to complete his report on national security in the next one month.

The report to tackle major national security issues were assigned to Hooda 10 days ago, Congress sources said.

Lieutenant General DS Hooda is the former General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Indian Army’s Northern Command. He was the Northern Army Commander during the Surgical Strike in 2016.

The development has come days after a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist rammed his explosive -laden SUV into a CRPF convoy in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district.

The terror attack killed 40 CRPF personnel and injured many others.