I agree...: After Shashi Tharoor's zealots jab, Pawan Khera's 2018 book reminder

The war of words between Shashi Tharoor and his party has intensified, as senior Congress leader Pawan Khera shared an excerpt from the Lok Sabha MP's book The Paradoxical Prime Minister, in which he called the Modi government "shameless" for publicising the 2016 surgical strikes for electoral gains.

In the same paragraph from Tharoor's 2018 book, Khera highlighted the part where Tharoor had written that the Congress had never glorified such strikes, even though it had authorised them in the past.

The internal rift within the Congress has been split wide open as it targeted Tharoor over his remarks claiming that India had organised its first surgical strikes across the LoC under Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2016.

Following Shashi Tharoor's remarks, sources within the Congress revealed that the party leadership was displeased with the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha MP's praise of the Modi government in Panama.

Soon after Shashi Tharoor's remarks, the Congress expressed strong reservations and stated that six surgical strikes were conducted under the UPA government but were never publicised.