29 May , 2025 By : Debdeep Gupta
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, says Tharoor.
After the Congress took swipes at Shashi Tharoor for his reported remarks that India breached the Line of Control (Loc) for the first time during the 2016 surgical strike, the Congress MP said he “was clearly and explicitly speaking only about reprisals for terrorist attacks and not about previous wars”.
In a post on X, the Congress MP said, “after a long and successful day in Panama”, he is headed 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 the past…,” he said.
According to the Congress leader, his 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. 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,” he said.
Congress’s media and publicity department chairperson Pawan Khera on Wednesday took to social media to make it clear that the party leadership had taken umbrage to Tharoor’s remarks.
He shared a news report on former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s statement that the Congress-led UPA government had also carried out surgical strikes.
“Former PM Manmohan Singh: Many Surgical Strikes Conducted Under UPA….CC @ShashiTharoor,” Khera posted on X. The post was shared by many Congress leaders including the party’s general secretary (communications) Jairam Ramesh.
Tagging Tharoor in a post on X, Khera shared a photograph of officers of 4 Sikh Regiment posing outside a captured Pakistani police station in Burki, Lahore District. “This image is from the Battle of Burki (also known as the Battle of Lahore, 1965), a significant engagement during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, fought between Indian infantry units and Pakistani armoured forces,” he said.
Tharoor is leading one of the all-party delegations on Operation Sindoor global outreach mission.
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