Shashi Tharoor: Shashi Tharoor, the Congress MLA from Thiruvananthapuram, said he was never guilty of violating the stated positions of his party in the Indian Parliament.
Tharoor remarked that his only public disagreement with the Rahul Gandhi-led party was over Operation Sindoor in 2025. While defending his stance, Tharoor had remarked that it was India’s first PM Jawahar Lal Nehru who first posed the question – “Who lives if India dies?” The Congress MLA had remarked India always comes first when India is at stake or when the country’s place in the world or its security is at stake.
Tharoor commented political parties may have their own set of differences but India must always prevail first when national interests are involved.
Speaking at the Kerala Literature Festival in Kozhikode, Tharoor said he remains unapologetic about his strong stand for the motherland during Operation Sindoor.
Tharoor made these comments while addressing reports that he has irreconcilable differences with the party high command and leadership.
It was widely reported on social media that Tharoor was upset with the kind of treatment given to her at the Mahapanchayat in Kochi. After this development, Tharoor remarked that he has no plans to attend the Congress meeting meant to discuss 2026 Kerala election preparations.
Shashi Tharoor-Pahalgam Incident
Tharoor said he had written a newspaper column after the April 22 attack in Pahalgam. Tharoor while addressing the community of Indians in Washington DC had recalled a harrowing incident when a woman whose husband was brutally shot down by terrorists who attacked tourists in Pahalgam asked them to kill her too, they told her to go back and tell the story to the world.
Shashi Tharoor had then appreciated the Operation Sindoor delegations and the “calibrated and measured” stance of the military response of India to the terror attack in Pahalgam.
The opinion piece of Tharoor “Lessons from Operation Sindoor’s global outreach” that was published in The Hindu was shared by Indian PM Narendra Modi.
