‘Unscrupulous’ vs ‘nationalist’: Shashi Tharoor trigger another Congress-BJP Slugfest | Bharat News

New Delhi: Is Shashi Tharoor prioritizing the national interest on the party’s interest as a global messenger of the country or is she “super spokesperson of BJP”? The Thiruvananthapuram MP, who is leading one of the 7 multi -sided delegations to highlight the attack of Pakistan Post Pahalgam terror, is once again in his party’s crosshare – this time for his comment that “India first violated the Local of Control (LOC) during the 2016 surgical strike.,As expected, the Congress has been denied and strong for this claim. The party cited an old statement by S Jaishankar to counter Tharoor’s comments. Senior Congress leader Pawan Khera posted the Parliamentary Committee on External Affairs on a comment made by Jaishankar in October 2016. Khera claimed that Jaishankar then said: “Professionally, target-specific, limited-caliber counter-conventive operations have also been done in LoC in the past, but this is the first time that the government has made it public.” Fall apartTharoor and Congress, who have been in Loggerheads for some time, seem to flow rapidly. Tharoor’s surprise for PM Modi’s visit to the US in February is that gradually but certainly in praising the initiative of Diplomacy of the NDA government, the Congress leader has developed a full-fledged controversy with several statements and especially posts its incidents to the Pahgam terrorist attack. During his visit to Panama, the latest controversy erupted after Tharoor, saying that in recent years, India’s stance on terrorism had changed and terrorists now understand that they would face the results for their actions.“What has changed in recent years is that the terrorists have also felt that they will have a price to pay; there is no doubt on it. When the first time, India violated the line of control between India and Pakistan to conduct a surgical strike on a terrorist basis – a launch pad – URI strike in September 2016. It was already something that we did not do before. Even during the Kargil War, we did not cross the line of control; In Uri, we did, and then attacked Pulwama in January 2019. This time, we not only crossed the line of control, but also the international border, and we killed the terrorist headquarters in Balkot. This time, we have gone beyond both of them. We have not only gone beyond the Line of Control and the International Border. We killed terrorist bases, training centers and terrorist headquarters at nine places in Punjabi Heartland, Pakistan, “Tharoor said.This gave a sharp response to the Congress. Udit Raj, who is leading the charge against Tharoor, took Thiruvananthapuram MP on social media to slam. “How can you defame the golden history of the Congress by saying that before PM Modi, India never crossed Loc and International Border. In 1965, the Indian Army entered Pakistan on several points, which completely surprised Pakistanis in the Lahore region. In 1971, India tore Pakistan into two pieces and during the UPA government, several surgical strikes were removed, but the beating of the drum was not done to encounter politically. How can you be so dishonest for the party that gave you a lot? The Congress leader wrote on X.Pawan Khera also targeted Tharoor and tagged him on an old interview by Manmohan Singh – in which the former Prime Minister claimed that at least 6 surgical attacks were carried out against Pakistan during the UPA rule. In May 2019, the Congress released a list of six sub-leaders “surgical strikes” which included Bhattal sector in Poonch (19 June 2008); Sharda Sector, Neelam River Valley, in Kel (30 August-September 1, 2011); Sawan Patra Checkpost (6 January 2013); Nazapir Sector (July 27-28, 2013); Neelam Valley (August 6, 2013); And one on 23 December 2013. , The BJP, who then called these claims a fraud, came to protect Tharoor and slammed the Congress to attack a “nationalist” leader within its ranks.BJP national spokesperson Shahzad Poonwale alleged that the Congress has deployed Udit Raj to attack Tharoor at the behest of Rahul Gandhi, when a multi-party Indian delegation led by the Congress MP is abroad to highlight Pakistan on the international stage.BJP leader Ajay Alok said, “There are two gangs within the Congress – one is ‘Rahul Gandhi’s gang’, ‘Gangs of Vasipur’, and the other is a nationalist group with leaders like Shashi Tharoor and P Chidambaram. Today, Gandhi’s gangs are behaving like a gang of Vasipur. The Congress has completely lost its mental balance. ,Who is to blame for this division?Former Congress leader Sanjay Jha blamed the party for the current crisis. “The Congress did not give Tharoor its reason. In Tharoor, the Congress had a great talent at its disposal and gave prominence in showing the party’s reaction to the current deadlock with Chidambaram,” says Sanjay Jha. What should be concerned that the Congress is one of its senior Kerala leaders support for Tharoor, who was recently removed from the post of state head. Former KPCC chief K. Sudhakaran questioned the party’s decision to exclude Tharoor from the list of individuals to lead the delegations of the Center on ‘Operation Sindoor’ last week and said it was similar to “insulting”.Sudhakaran said that Tharoor was a competent leader and a loyal member of the party and therefore, in his view, it was not right to sideline the Thiruvananthapuram MP.Sudhakaran said in an interview to a TV channel according to news agency PTI, “It was all an unnecessary controversy that I think.”Should the Congress work against Tharoor?Tharoor seems unaffected by his stance and Udit Raj attacks against the Congress. He has openly broadcast his views, supporting PM Modi’s diplomacy initiative, who does not speak against the party line despite the clear instructions of Mallikrajun Kharge.Sanjay Jha feels that the Congress should not take any action against Tharoor and instead the party should try to talk and integrate them. Well, this is not the possibility in the current circumstances – especially with some Congress leaders now taking more aggressive stand against Tharoor.Perhaps, it is the politics of Kerala which is at the center of this line. Kerala goes to the election next year and the Congress is going out to return to the state after defeating LDF and two consecutive defeats. The fact is that Rahul Gandhi’s closest aide KC Venugopal is from Kerala, perhaps something may have to be done with power toss in the state unit and the potential dissolution of Tharoor with the party.