'Critics and troll welcome': Shashi Tharoor's remarks get BJP pat, flak from own party
PTC News Desk: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has issued a stern response to his own party colleagues after reciving backlash over his praise for PM Modi government's fight against terrorism. Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has said "critics and trolls" are welcome to distort his views and that he has "better things to do".
Currently Tharoor is heading one of the delegation part of Operation Sindoor outreach in the wake of horrific Pahalgam massacre.
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
"After a long and successful day in Panama, I have to wind up at midnight 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:
"I was clearly and explicitly speaking only about reprisals for terrorist attacks and not about previous wars; and 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," he said in a post on X.
"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."
Tharoor's latest remarks follow a decisive criticism from his own party after he praised Narendra Modi government's fight against terrorism and subsequent Operation Sindoor. Yesterday while addressing a gathering in the Panama City, Tharoor said terrorists targeting India have realised in recent years that they will have to pay.
"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 launchpad - the Uri strike in September 2015. That was already something we had not done before."
- PTC NEWS
