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Snubbed and silenced: India's Shashi Tharoor caught in the crossfire

Congress cold shoulder to Tharoor shows how far it has drifted from political pragmatism

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Swati Chaturvedi, Special to Gulf News
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The Congress threw a hissy fit when the Modi government ignored its own list of recommended names and instead picked Shashi Tharoor to head one of the delegations to articulate India's stance against terrorism.
The Congress threw a hissy fit when the Modi government ignored its own list of recommended names and instead picked Shashi Tharoor to head one of the delegations to articulate India's stance against terrorism.
ANI

“Anyone who considers serving the national interest as anti-party activity should have his head examined,” said a source close to Shashi Tharoor — four-time Congress Member of Parliament from Thiruvananthapuram, and these days considered a Congress rebel without pause.

What got overshadowed in the Congress party’s latest kerfuffle was the Indian government’s foreign outreach that cut across party lines following Operation Sindoor. The Modi government picked seven MPs — four from the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and three from the opposition, including Tharoor — to articulate India’s stance against terrorism to the world.

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