‘You a BJP spokesperson?’: Congress chief slams Shashi Tharoor over Pahalgam remarks
Congress chief Udit Raj launched a pointy assault in opposition to celebration colleague Shashi Tharoor over his remarks on the latest Pahalgam terror assault, as he questioned the latter’s political allegiance.
Raj questioned whether or not Tharoor was talking for the Congress or aligning himself with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP).
“I need to ask Shashi Tharoor, is he within the Congress celebration or the BJP? Is he attempting to develop into a super-BJP man? Shashi Tharoor ought to ask the BJP when the federal government is taking the Pok? Has Shashi Tharoor develop into the advocate of the BJP?” Udit Raj stated.
What Shashi Tharoor stated concerning the Pahalgam assault
Udit Raj’s remarks got here after Tharoor, whereas talking concerning the Pahalgam terror assault, in contrast the incident to Israel’s intelligence failure throughout the Hamas-led strike on October 7, 2023, saying that even nations with the world’s strongest intelligence networks might be caught off guard.
“Clearly, there was no foolproof intelligence. There was some failure… However now we have received the instance of Israel, the world’s greatest intelligence providers based on all people, which was taken abruptly on October 7, simply two years in the past. It appears to me, simply as Israel is ready until the tip of the battle earlier than they demand accountability, equally, I feel we too ought to see the current disaster by means of after which demand accountability from the federal government. No nation can ever have a foolproof 100 per cent intelligence,’ he was quoted as saying by ANI.
Tharoor, nevertheless, maintained a nuanced stance, arguing that the general public typically by no means hears about terror assaults which are efficiently prevented.
“We’ll by no means know concerning the varied terror assaults that had been efficiently thwarted. We solely be taught concerning the ones that we didn’t thwart. That is regular in any nation. There have been failures, I agree, however that shouldn’t be our fundamental focus proper now,” the Congress chief stated.
Has the BJP appointed Tharoor as spokesperson? Udit Raj asks
Over his remarks, Raj referred to as for readability on Tharoor’s place inside the celebration. “I need to ask him which terrorist incident passed off after 9/11 in America? Has the BJP appointed him as its spokesperson?” he requested.
Pahalgam terror assault
On April 22, terrorists opened fireplace on vacationers in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam and killed 26 individuals, principally civilians. The victims had been gunned down close to Baisaran Meadow, a preferred vacationer vacation spot in Jammu and Kashmir.
