New Delhi: Reacting to Udit Raj’s remark questioning his stance on the Pahalgam terror attack, Shashi Tharoor on Monday noted that the politician had been a BJP MP. Earlier, Raj had asked Tharoor if he was a BJP spokesperson. In response to such a remark, Tharoor said everybody knew he wasn’t a BJP spokesperson, but Raj had been a BJP MP.
“I believe the person who said this is a former BJP MP, so you can ask him, he is better qualified to understand who speaks for the BJP… I think everybody knows that I am not a BJP spokesperson. I am not anyone’s spokesperson. I speak for myself,” Tharoor said.
A Congress leader, Raj had asked if Tharoor had become a “super-BJP man”.
“I want to ask Shashi Tharoor – is he in the Congress party or the BJP? Is he trying to become a super-BJP man? Shashi Tharoor should ask the BJP when the government is taking the PoK. Has Shashi Tharoor become the advocate of the BJP?” Raj told ANI.
Prior to this, Tharoor had said that no country’s intelligence was “foolproof”.
“There was no foolproof intelligence. There was some failure… But we have the example of Israel, the world’s best intelligence services according to everybody, which was taken by surprise on October 7, just two years ago. It seems to me, just as Israel is waiting till the end of the war before they demand accountability, similarly, I think we too should see the present crisis through and then demand accountability from the government. No country can ever have a foolproof 100 per cent intelligence,” he said.
This came in response to the deadly Pahalgam terror attack in which 26 tourists were killed.
