Tharoor breaks silence on rift with party, Defends Stand on Operation Sindoor

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor reiterated that at no stage he violated any of his party’s positions in Parliament.

“If you look at any of my public statements on record, I have at no stage violated any of the party’s positions in Parliament,” he said at the Kerala Literature Festival here on Saturday (January 24). “The only issue on which there has been a public disagreement on principle has been about Operation Sindoor, where I did take a very strong stand.”

Mr. Tharoor, who had reportedly been upset that he had not been adequately acknowledged by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at the recent Maha Panchayat programme in Kochi, recalled what he wrote in his newspaper column about Operation Sindoor.