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Shashi Tharoor was a part of the all-party delegations for Operation Sindoor outreach (Express Photo)
Amid the ongoing Operation Sindoor outreach led by all-party delegations, Congress leader Udit Raj on Wednesday attacked party colleague and MP Shashi Tharoor, saying that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will soon declare him the “super spokesperson of BJP.”
Accusing Tharoor of being “dishonest” with his own party, Raj accused the Thiruvananthapuram MP of “denigrating the golden history of Congress” by saying that the first time India breached the Line of Control to attack a terror base in Pakistan was during the Uri surgical strikes.
Posting on X, Raj said, “I could prevail upon PM Modi to declare you as super spokesperson of BJP , even declaring as foreign minister before landing in India . How could you denigrate the golden history of Congress by saying that before PM Modi , India never crossed LOC and International border.”
“In 1965 Indian Army entered Pakistan at multiple points, which completely surprised the Pakistanis in the Lahore sector. In 1971 , India tore Pakistan in two pieces and during UPA Govt several surgical strikes were unleashed but drum beating was not done to encash politically. How could you be so dishonest to the party which gave you so much?” the Congress leader wrote.
My dear @ShashiTharoor
Alas ! I could prevail upon PM Modi to declare you as super spokesperson of BJP , even declaring as foreign minister before landing in India . How could you denigrate the golden history of Congress by saying that before PM Modi , India never crossed LOC… https://t.co/c88b8rX2bq
— Dr. Udit Raj (@Dr_Uditraj) May 28, 2025
Udit Raj’s remarks came after Tharoor, while speaking to reporters in Panama City, said that this is the first time that India crossed the Line of Control to conduct a surgical strike against a terror base, speaking of the Uri surgical strike.
“What has changed in recent years is that the terrorists have also realised they will have a price to pay, on that, let there be no doubt. When, for the first time, India breached the Line of Control between India and Pakistan to conduct a surgical strike on a terror base, a launch pad – the Uri strike,” Tharoor said, while speaking to ANI.
“That was already something we had not done before. Even during the Kargil War, we had not crossed the Line of Control; in Uri, we did, and then came the attack in Pulwama in January 2019. This time, we crossed not only the Line of Control but also the international border, and we struck the terrorist headquarters in Balakot,” he said.
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The Congress MP further said that during Operation Sindoor, the Indian Army decided to go one step beyond the LoC by hitting terror bases, training centres, terror headquarters in nine locations.
Tharoor is a part of a broader all-party delegation tasked with spreading India’s anti-terror message after Operation Sindoor, where the Indian military neutralised multiple terror bases in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, in retaliation after the Pahalgam terror attack.
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