"Critics And Trolls Are Welcome": Tharoor Responds To Congress’s ‘Spokesperson’ Jibe (image:x.com/indiclogic)
New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday sharply responded to his party colleagues criticism over his remarks praising government’s response to terrorism during the global outreach. Addressing the issue for the first time, he tweeted that “critics and trolls are welcome to distort my views” and that he has “better things to do.”
Following Tharoor’s post, senior Congress leader Pawan Khera shared an excerpt from Tharoor’s 2018 book, The Paradoxical Prime Minister, where he wrote about the 2016 surgical strikes as a ” party election tool.”
I agree with that Dr @ShashiTharoor who wrote about surgical strikes in his book in 2018 – ‘The Paradoxical Prime Minister’. #ReadingNow pic.twitter.com/hAhsfwH0JT
— Pawan Khera 🇮🇳 (@Pawankhera) May 29, 2025
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Taking to X, Tharoor wrote: “After a long and successful day in Panama, i have to wind up at midnight here with departure for Bogota, Colombia in six hours, so I don’t really have time for this — but anyway: For those zealots fulminating about my supposed ignorance of Indian valour across the LoC: in tge past 1. I was clearly and explicitly speaking only about reprisals for terrorist attacks and not about previous wars; & 2. My remarks were preceded by a reference to the several attacks that have taken place in recent years alone, during which previous Indian responses were both restrained and constrained by our responsible respect for the LoC and the IB.”
After a long and successful day in Panama, i have to wind up at midnightvhere with departure for Bogota, Colombia in six hours, so I don’t really have time for this — but anyway: For those zealots fulminating about my supposed ignorance of Indian valour across the LoC: in tge…
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) May 29, 2025
He further added, “But as usual, critics and trolls are welcome to distort my views and words as they see fit. I genuinely have better things to do. Goodnight.”
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It was 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.
On Wednesday, 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.”
