Watch: Shashi Tharoor’s ‘don’t work for government’ reply with a nod to Operation Sindoor
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor’s latest endorsement of India’s recent counter-terror strikes during Operation Sindoor has found him praising the government’s response even as his party seethes over being sidelined in a crucial diplomatic outreach.Addressing the Indian diaspora at the Consulate in New York, Tharoor declared that while he did not work for the government, he was “pleased” with the government’s retaliation to the Pahalgam massacre of April 22.
“I don’t work for the government, as you know. I work for an opposition party. But I myself authored an op-ed in one of India’s leading papers, the Indian Express, within a couple of days, saying the time had come to hit hard but hit smart. And I’m pleased to say that’s exactly what India did.”
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