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Congress Leader Pokes Shashi Tharoor With Excerpt From The Latter’s Book

All is not well with Congress party and its MP Shashi Tharoor. Rift seems to be widen as Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera responded to Tharoor's critics and trolls" post by sharing an excerpt from his 2018 book, 'The Paradoxical Prime Minister: Narendra Modi and His India'.

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Congress Leader Pokes Shashi Tharoor With Excerpt From The Latter’s Book

Congress Leader Pokes Shashi Tharoor With Excerpt From The Latter’s Book

New Delhi: All is not well with Congress party and its MP Shashi Tharoor. Rift seems to be widen as Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera responded to Tharoor’s critics and trolls” post by sharing an excerpt from his 2018 book, ‘The Paradoxical Prime Minister: Narendra Modi and His India’.

 In the X post, Khera wrote: “I agree with that Shashi Tharoor who wrote about surgical strikes in his book in 2018 – ‘The Paradoxical Prime Minister’”. Along with it, he posted a photograph of passage from the book where he had criticised the BJP’s “shameless exploitation” of the 2016 surgical strikes along the Line of Control (LoC), stressing that Congress had authorised several such operations during its term without politicising them.

“The shameless exploitation of the 2016 surgical strikes’ along the Line of Control with Pakistan, and of a military raid in hot pursuit of rebels in Myanmar, as party election tool-something the Congress had never done despite having authorized several such strikes earlier-marked particularly disgraceful dilution of the principle that national Security issues require both discretion and non-partisanship,” the passage read.

Facing criticism from his party colleagues following his remarks praising government’s response to terrorism during the global outreach, Tharoor on early Thursday addressed the issue and explained his remark stating that it specifically addressed retaliatory actions following terrorist attacks, not previous wars.

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While leading an all-party delegation to the United States as part of Operation Sindoor’s global outreach, the Congress MP hailed the 2016 surgical strike and 2019’s Balakot strike. “What has changed in recent years is that the terrorists have also realised they will have a price to pay; on that, let there be no doubt. When, for the first time, India breached the Line of Control between India and Pakistan to conduct a surgical strike on a terror base, a launch pad — the Uri strike in September 2016,” Congress MP said.

Tharoor also stated that the Indian Army went one step beyond the LoC and International Border during Operation Sindoor, “hitting terror bases, training centres, terror headquarters in nine places.”

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