New Delhi: Congress leaders Pawan Khera and Jairam Ramesh have endorsed Udit Raj’s criticism of Shashi Tharoor’s remarks on surgical strikes in Panama.
Tharoor, part of an all-party delegation, had stated that India crossed the Line of Control for the first time in September 2015 under the current government.
On Wednesday, Congress leader Pawan Khera criticised his fellow party leader Shashi Tharoor over his statement in Panama as part of the all-party delegation on Operation Sindoor outreach.
Khera took to X to refute Tharoor’s remarks in Panama where he had stated India crossed the Line of Control for the first time in September 2015.
Khera refuted Tharoor’s claims, citing former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s statement that many surgical strikes were conducted under the UPA government. Khera shared a video clip of Singh’s statement on social media, emphasizing that surgical strikes were not new to the current government.
Khera shared a link to the video and captioned it, “Former PM Manmohan Singh: Many Surgical Strikes Conducted Under UPA....”
In another post, the Congress leader wrote, “Professionally done, target-specific, limited-calibre counter-terrorist operations have been carried out across the LoC in the past too, but this is for the first time that the government has made it public,” Jaishankar said this to the Parliamentary Committee on External Affairs in October 2016.”
Notably, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had told Parliamentary panel that the Army had carried out “target specific, limited- calibre, counter-terrorist operations” across the LoC in the past too, but this is for the first time the government has gone public about it.
He also reposted the party leader Udit Raj’s remarks on his account where Udit Raj accused Tharoor of being a “spokesperson for the publicity stunts of the BJP” and criticised him for downplaying the achievements of previous governments. Raj pointed out that the Indian Army had crossed the LOC and international border in the past, citing examples from 1965 and 1971. (ANI)
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