Amid Congress leaders’ swipes at him over his ‘surgical strike’ remarks, party leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday said that for those “zealots” fulminating about his supposed ignorance of Indian valour across the LoC, he was “clearly and explicitly” speaking only about reprisals for terrorist attacks and not about previous wars.
Tharoor said his remarks were preceded by a reference to the several attacks that have taken place in recent years alone, during which previous Indian responses were both restrained and constrained by India’s responsible respect for the LoC and the IB.
The Congress leader, who is leading a multi-party delegation to five countries, while speaking here, reportedly said that when “for the first time” India breached the LoC between India and Pakistan to conduct a surgical strike on a terror base that was something we had not done before. PTI
