Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, who is leading an all-party delegation to Panama, said that terrorists targeting India have now realised that they will have to pay.
Shashi Tharoor, who arrived in the Latin American nation on Tuesday, is part of the all-party parliamentary delegation to convey India’s strong message of zero-tolerance for terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.
“We have suffered attack after attack for almost four decades. It is just not acceptable for us to continue to bear the pain, the grief, the wounds, the losses and then merely go and tell the international community, look what is happening to us. Please help us. Please put pressure on the perpetrators to actually identify and prosecute the criminals,” Tharoor said.
Tharoor slammed Pakistan over the continuous attack on Indian territory through terrorism.
#WATCH | Panama City | Congress MP Shashi Tharoor says, “…Some women cried out The terrorists killed me too, and they said, ‘No, go back, tell what happened to you. We heard, we heard their cries and India decided that the colour of the Sindoor, the vermilion colour on the… pic.twitter.com/VOcr3hq3RO
— ANI (@ANI) May 28, 2025
“Unfortunately, our desire to just be left alone is not reciprocated by our friends on the other side of the border. They have chosen repeatedly to attack us because they believe that they want territory which they do not control, which we control. It is part of the sovereign borders of the United Indian, and we are not going to give it to them even if we have to pay the price that we have repeatedly been paid,” he said.
“It is just not acceptable for us to continue to bear the pain, the grief, the wounds, the losses, and then merely go and tell the international community, look what is happening to us. Please help us. Please put pressure on the perpetrators to actually identify and prosecute the criminals,” he added.
The all-party delegation is travelling to 33 global capitals to reach out to the international community on Pakistan’s designs and India’s response to terror — Operation Sindoor — which India carried out against terror hideouts in Pakistan after the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22.
Tharoor pressed on the necessity of Operation Sindoor following Pahalgam terror attack by saying, “Some women cried out The terrorists killed me too, and they said, ‘No, go back, tell what happened to you. We heard, we heard their cries and India decided that the colour of the Sindoor, the vermilion colour on the forehead of our women, will also match the colour of the blood of the killers, the perpetrators, the attackers.”
“Our Prime Minister has made it very clear Operation Sindoor was necessary because these terrorists came and wiped the Sindoor off the foreheads of 26 women by depriving them of their husbands and fathers, their married lives…” he added.
However, Shashi Tharoor’s remark did not go well with some Congress leaders. Congress leader Udit Raj took a jibe at Tharoor’s statements and called him a “spokesperson for the publicity stunts of the BJP”.
My dear @ShashiTharoor
Alas ! I could prevail upon PM Modi to declare you as super spokesperson of BJP , even declaring as foreign minister before landing in India . How could you denigrate the golden history of Congress by saying that before PM Modi , India never crossed LOC… https://t.co/c88b8rX2bq
— Dr. Udit Raj (@Dr_Uditraj) May 28, 2025
“Congress MP Shashi Tharoor is the super spokesperson of the BJP, and what the BJP leaders are not saying, speaking in favour of PM Modi and the government, Shashi Tharoor is doing… Does he (Shashi Tharoor) even know what the earlier governments used to do? … They (the Central government) are taking credit for the Indian Armed Forces. Shashi Tharoor has become the spokesperson for the publicity stunts of the BJP,” Udit Raj said.
Responding to Tharoor’s statement, Udit Raj in a post on X said, “How could you denigrate the golden history of Congress by saying that before PM Modi, India never crossed LOC and the International border. In 1965 the Indian Army entered Pakistan at multiple points, which completely surprised the Pakistanis in the Lahore sector. In 1971, India tore Pakistan into two pieces and during the UPA government, several surgical strikes were unleashed, but drum beating was not done to encash it politically. How could you be so dishonest to the party which gave you so much?”
