New Delhi, May 28 (KNO): Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, who is leading a delegation of politicians to various countries to educate them about ‘Operation Sindoor’ has stirred the ‘hornet’s nest’ as his party has accused him of "dismissing the proud legacy" of the Congress.
Senior Congress leader Udit Raj, according to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) hit out at Tharoor and described him as “spokesperson of BJP.”
“My dear Shashi Tharoor, Alas! I could prevail upon PM Modi to declare you as super spokesperson of BJP, even declaring as foreign minister before landing in India, Raj wrote on X.
He asked Tharoor how he could “dismiss the proud legacy of the Congress by saying that before PM Modi, India never crossed LOC and International border. How could you be so dishonest to the party which gave you so much?”
Moreover, Chairman, Media & Publicity Department of the Congress Pawan Khera retweeted the post of Udit Raj.
Earlier Tharoor in a powerful statement underscoring India's measured response to terrorism strongly defended ‘Operation Sindoor’ and emphasised that the mission was “necessary and precisely targeted” and “not a call for war”.
Citing the harrowing plight of 26 women whose “Sindoor” (vermilliopn) was wiped off from their foreheads by terrorists, Tharoor said, “India’s response was carefully, precisely and calibrated strikes on terror bases—avoiding civilian, military, or government targets entirely”.
He said, “These terrorists came and wiped the Sindoor off their foreheads. Infact there were some women who cried and asked the terrorists "kill me too" and they said No! Go back and tell what happened to you.”
Drawing an emotional parallel between the colour of “Sindoor” and the blood of the terrorists, Tharoor said, “We heard that cry and India decided that the colour of the Sindoor, the vermillion colour on the forehead of our women also match the colour of the blood of the killers, the perpetrators, the attackers”—(KNO)