Is Shashi Tharoor super-BJP man?, asks Congress leader slamming Kerala MP’s ‘no foolproof intelligence’ comment on Pahalgam terror attack

Congress leader Udit Raj slammed MP Shashi Tharoor comments on the Pahalgam terror attack and asked whether the Kerala leader is advocating for the Bharatiya Janata Party staying in Congress.

 

Criticising Tharoor’s remarks on the attack, Raj asked whether the Congress leader has become an advocate of the ruling BJP in the Centre. "I want to ask Shashi Tharoor 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.

 

Raj’s sharp criticism comes after Tharoor remarked no country has foolproof intelligence and the opposition must be focusing on present crisis before demanding accountability. “Obviously, there was no foolproof intelligence. There was some failure, but, we have got the example of Israel, the world's best intelligence services according to everybody, which were taken by surprise on October 7, just two years ago,” the Congress MP told ANI on Sunday.

 

Tharoor opined like Israel, India should see the present crisis through and then demand accountability from the Centre. “No country can ever have a 100 per cent foolproof intelligence. We will never know about the various terror attacks that were successfully thwarted. We only get to know about the ones that we failed to thwart. This is normal in any nation. There were failures, I agree, but that should not be our main focus right now,” he told the publication.

 

Tharoor’s remarks come while questions are being raised about the security lapse that led to the Pahalgam terror attack. As many as 26 persons were killed in the gruesome terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir on April 22.

 

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