Team News Riveting
New Delhi, July 22
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday hit back and questioned the authority of party colleagues attacking him over his recent remarks on national security.
The development comes days after senior Kerala Congress leader K Muraleedharan hit out at Tharoor, saying he will not be invited to any party event in Thiruvananthapuram until he changed his stance.
“First of all, it seems to me that the people saying this also have to have a basis for saying this. Who are these people? What is their position in the party? I would like to know,” Tharoor told reporters, responding to Muraleedharan’s assertion that the Thiruvananthapuram MP was no longer considered “one of us.”
The intra-party rift spilled out in open after Tharoor, also a Congress Working Committee (CWC) member, voiced support for the Central Government and armed forces on recent national security developments.
The Congress MP had said that a lot of people have been very critical of him because of his stand. “But I will stand my ground, because I believe this is the right thing for the country,” Tharoor said at an event in Kochi on Saturday.
Tharoor had also said that when people like him call for cooperating with other parties in the interests of national security, their own parties feel that it’s disloyal to them, and that becomes a big problem.
