“Spoke As An Indian”: Shashi Tharoor After Congress’ ‘Lakshman Rekha’ Remark

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday clarified that his comments on the India-Pakistan conflict were made in a personal capacity, as an "Indian and a proud citizen", and did not reflect the official stand of the party.

Speaking to reporters, the Lok Sabha MP from Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram also expressed ignorance over reports that a few party leaders felt he had crossed the "Lakshman Rekha - a metaphor originating in Ramayana, loosely meaning "boundary" - through his repeated comments on the conflict.

"People seem to think I have knowledge on some of these subjects. So they come and ask me my views. And I make it very clear, sometimes explicitly and sometimes implicitly, that I am expressing my personal views as an Indian, as a proud citizen," Mr Tharoor told reporters.