As institutions have started focusing on specific issues and results rather than parties, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi refuses to comment on the issues going on within the party about his stance on Narendra Modi.
Tharoor, who was in Ahmedabad, made this comment on Saturday at the Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA) on the occasion of an event.
Tharoor, who recently led a all-party delegation on Operation Sindoor against Pakistan and has faced secret reactions from his party leaders to praise the PM, ANI: “I am not going to political issues here. If there are issues to discuss them, they will be discussed privately, and when the time comes, I will do it.” In a conversation on ‘Diction, Vivek and Diplomacy’ in AMA, Tharoor said that he began to focus on specific issues and results, rather than “as parties in the form of institutions or structures of winning elections”.
In a session with Jainil Shah, chairman of the AMA Program Committee, Tharoor said, “The only reason for being in politics is a better society, a better country and a better future for your land. Time, it may not be the sole purpose”.
Talking about his recent visit later after Operation Sindoor, Tharoor said: “In other places, we were really able to say some very highly involved people that not only he not only respected and supported India’s right to self-defense, but he really appreciated the restrained way of our response, so we could be very bad … So we would say that I was very intelligent,” but I said that I said, ” Let me tell you that they should not be surprised that if this (terrorist attack) happens again, we will also do this again… and I believe that we have not doubted our feelings and our intentions, “he said.
Speaking about the emergency imposed by the Congress government 50 years ago, Tharoor said that it changed the decision to take the UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) examination for jobs in foreign services.
He said that when an emergency was declared, he was studying international affairs on a scholarship in 1975 in Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Tharoor said that he had a roommate that worked as a journalist and continued as “moonlight” and would bring “the rhymes of Tlex stories” on the events in India.
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The MP said, “To see what was happening in India, it was moving deeply and I felt that somehow I could not really imagine that I can serve a government that could do so for our people and our democracy.” Recalling his first relationship with Gujarat, he shared information about how their two sisters were selected as Amul Baby for Dairy Co-operative advertising campaign in the 1960s.
With PTI input
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