Congress points to Shashi Tharoor's own book to slam his praise for Modi Govt over Op Sindoor - 'disgraceful dilution'
This time, the Congress pointed to, Tharoor's own book where he had criticised the Modi government for 'shamelessly exploiting' the 2016 surgical strikes.
Tharoor, who is taking India case post Operation Sindoor in foreign countries, has with his remarks seemingly riled his party for showing support for the Modi government over recent military actions across the border in Pakistan and Pakistan-ccupied-Kashmir (PoK).
Tharoor, who is leading a multi-party delegation in a global outreach programme, said in Panama earlier this week that India has changed its approach in recent years. The Thiruvananthapuram MPsaid what has changed in recent years is that the terrorists have also realised they will have a price to pay.
The remarks didn't go well with many Congress leaders who reminded Tharoorabout surgical strikes under the UPA government with Udit Raj even dubbing him 'super spokesperson' of theBharatiya Janata Party(BJP).
Congress Media and Publicity Department chairman Pawan Khera, one of the party leaders targeting Tharoor, shared a page of Tharoor's book 'The Paradixical Prime Minister: Narendra Modi And His India'
The book by Tharoor is about the Prime Minister Modi and was released on 26 October 2018 by former prime minister late Manmohan Singh, P Chidambaram, Arun Shourie, and Pavan Varma.
"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 Mayanmar, as a party election tool – something that the Congress had never done despite having authorised several such strikes earlier -- marked a particularly disgraceful dilution of the principle that national security issues require both discretion and non-partisanship," reads the page in the book shared by Khera on X.
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