“Agree With Shashi Tharoor…”: Pawan Khera’s Veiled Attack On Colleague

Pawan Khera has posted a photograph of a highlighted passage from Shashi Tharoor’s book after the latter’s post on X against “critics and trolls”

Shashi Tharoor’s relationship with Congress is strained after his remarks on surgical strikes drew criticism from party leaders. Pawan Khera and Jairam Ramesh highlighted Mr Tharoor’s comments, signaling displeasure.

In a clear sign that Shashi Tharoor’s ties with the Congress may be at a crossroads, senior party leader Pawan Khera has responded to the Thiruvananthapuram MP’s “critics and trolls” post with a passage from his book ‘The Paradoxical Prime Minister: Narendra Modi and His India’.

Mr Khera has posted a photograph of a highlighted passage. Here, Mr Tharoor has accused the Narendra Modi government of “repeatedly using the army in its political propaganda”. “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 Myanmar, as party election tool-something the Congress had never done despite having authorized several such strikes earlier-marked particularly disgraceful dilution of the principle that national Security issues require both discretion and non-partisanship,” he has written.