In a veiled assault on Congress MP and senior social gathering chief Shashi Tharoor, Congress chief Pawan Khera on Thursday mentioned he agrees with what the lawmaker wrote in his e-book ‘The Paradoxical Prime Minister’ in 2018.
The jibe comes at a time when Tharoor’s reward for Prime Minister Narendra Modi over Operation Sindoor has left the Congress and its leaders uncomfortable. Tharoor’s bathe of accolades got here throughout an all-party delegation go to to Panama.
Sharing an excerpt from Tharoor’s 2018 e-book on social media Khera mentioned, “I agree with that Dr Shashi Tharoor who wrote about surgical strikes in his e-book in 2018 – ‘The Paradoxical Prime Minister’.”
Within the highlighted excerpt shared by Khera, Tharoor is seen criticising the BJP-led Centre’s 2016 ‘surgical strikes’ alongside the LoC as a celebration election device to garner votes, whereas including that Congress had by no means accomplished so, regardless of having ordered a number of airstrikes.
I agree with that Dr @ShashiTharoor who wrote about surgical strikes in his e-book in 2018 – ‘The Paradoxical Prime Minister’. #ReadingNow pic.twitter.com/hAhsfwH0JT
— Pawan Khera 🇮🇳 (@Pawankhera) May 29, 2025
Within the highlighted portion, Tharoor is seen calling the BJP’s conduct of the 2016 ‘surgical strikes’ a “notably disgraceful dilution of the principal that nationwide safety points require each discretion and non-partisanship.”
Whereas Tharoor’s reward for Modi has acquired flak from his social gathering colleagues, the MP has issued a clarification on his official X account. He acknowledged that his feedback particularly addressed retaliatory actions following terrorist assaults, didn’t mirror that of earlier wars or navy operations.
“My remarks have been preceded by a reference to the a number of assaults which have taken place in recent times alone, throughout which earlier Indian responses have been each restrained and constrained by our accountable respect for the LoC and the IB,” his X submit reads.
After an extended and profitable day in Panama, i’ve to wind up at midnightvhere with departure for Bogota, Colombia in six hours, so I don’t actually have time for this — however anyway: For these zealots fulminating about my supposed ignorance of Indian valour throughout the LoC: in tge…
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) May 29, 2025
Tharoor has been going through inside warmth for taking a stance totally different from the social gathering on Operation Sindoor and has additionally been accused of parroting BJP’s narrative on the warfare.