ongress MP Sashi Tharoor urged Narendra Modi to shed diplomacy with Pakistan

Congress MP Sashi Tharoor has urged the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to shed his biryani diplomacy with Pakistan after former Pak PM Nawaj Shariff admitted that Pakistan terrorists carried out the 2008 Mumbai terror attack known as 26/11.

“Everyone knew that Pakistan was behind the Mumbai attack as foreign and Indian intelligence agencies had marshaled evidences on the matter. But now the admission of Sharif has vindicated the Indian charges,” said the Congress MP addressing a press conference here on Sunday, Tharoor said that the real issue of terrorism is within Pakistan and they will have to deal with it. Shashi Tharoor is also the chairman of the parliament committee on Indo-Pakistan relationship.

He said the parliamentary committee has made several recommendations and suggestions for the government to adopt for countering the menace of cross border terror.  He also deplored that act of the terrorists in Kashmir for using the citizen as human shield to save themselves from security personnel.

Claiming that the country is not safe in the hands of the BJP after the four year old Narendra Modi rule, the Congress leader, also the chairman of the All India Professional Congress said that a joint opposition can stop the BJP in coming to power again in 2019.

“Though it is premature to suggest grand alliance in the offing, different political parties despite ideological differences are talking to each other in big states like UP and Bihar. The political parties will have to shed their reservations against each other for the larger cause,” he said.

Defending Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s candied admission that he was willing to take the post of PM if Congress gets the majority in 2019, Tharoor said,”Rahul Gandhi is the president of the Congress which will emerge as the top most party after the elections and it is natural that he will become the PM.”

“There is no question of any alliance so far at the national level. Even if such thing happens Congress will be the largest party in the country and if it not happens then too it will be the second largest. So Congress president had said nothing wrong,” he said while reacting on whether Rahul Gandhi had not consulted the other opposition parties before announcing his candidature for the post of PM.

The Congress MP also slammed the BJP for raking up the Jinnah issue at the AMU.” I am neither Fan of Jinnah nor defending anyone but why such issue has arisen now. The portrait of Jinnah was put on in 1938 and if they had to pull it down it was to be in August, 1947.

Shashi Tharoo, the Congress MP from Kerala said he was optimistic of party retaining power in Karnataka. “We are confident that Siddaramaiah will again become the CM,” he said.