New Delhi: “Will you be interested in contesting elections for the post of General Secretary (United Nations)?” This is a question that the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked Shashi Tharoor in New York in 2005. Tharoor, who was serving as the UN under-secretary-general, later admitted that Singh’s question later caught him a little closed guard.
After serving various capabilities at the United Nations since 1978, Tharoor felt that his “entire working life seemed like a preparation” for the top position of the organization “. Nevertheless, he had no reason to believe that New Delhi was ready to return such a bid on its behalf, at least not at that time.
India eventually nominated him, after the delay, for the position in mid -2006. Tharoor lost to Ban Ki-Moon of South Korea, which the government launched an aggressive campaign for its candidate. However, it was the United States that emerged as the biggest stumbling for Tharoor’s candidature.
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“Three factors- bilateral relations with Korea, a notion of decrease in the part of India, and the desire of the Bush administration does not have the desire to repeat a ‘strong’ general secretary’s Kofi Annan experiment- to ensure that he rejects my candidature,” wrote In open Magazine in 2016.
Two decades later, in a classic turn of irony, Tharoor finds himself entangled in a disputed dispute with diplomatic color. The same Congress party, once its bid for the highest seat in global diplomacy, is now shining at the center nominating him as a leader of a multi-party delegation who visited various world capitals on Operation Sindoor.
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In 2006, he lost his United Nations battle, Tharoor started spending more time in India and found a house in the Congress party, which offered him the post of Foreign Minister after his first Lok Sabha victory from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala in the 2009 general elections. Tharoor retained the seat, winning four elections on the trot.
In 2015, Tharoor claimed that when he was still considering his options after the United Nations term, he also received proposals to join the BJP and the Left. But he chose Congress because he Explained In 2009, “I have nothing financially financially with the ideology of the Left and Communist parties. Those who have followed my writing for years know that I have nothing normal with communalism that is unfortunately encouraged by people associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party … and basically the Congress party means.”
Nevertheless, Tharoor’s loyalty to the Congress is suspicious in the eyes of a part of party leaders from the beginning. A few days after the Congress’s drooking in the 2014 general elections, his words of praise for Narendra Modi marked the beginning of a series of statements in the last decade which strengthened the notion.
One in Hafpost Article, Tharoor wrote The way Modi recalled himself with hate-assessment in the avatar of modernity and progress, he is trying to remake the BJP for a natural party of governance from a vehicle of Hindu outpost. “
He continued: “For an opposition member of Parliament like himself, it will not be to accept the inclusive outreach of Modi 2.0 and welcome his more inclusive statements and tasks. The moment that he says or Modi says some divisive or sectarian in 1.0 mold, however, we will strongly oppose him. We will strongly oppose him. People of India, and democratic democracy towards it.
After criticizing his party colleagues, Tharoor Confirmed His commitment to the principles of Congress and secularism in a letter to the party’s communication department. He wrote, “By praising him (Modi) for specific things, we help to frame the public expectation of his continuous behavior and increase the time we will judge him in the future,” he wrote.
However, it was very low to overcome Tharoor’s growing perception as a misfit within the Congress. Jayer Ramesh as Congress General Secretary (Communication) told a press handle last month, “Congress is Pisces and the value of Congress“(There is a big difference between being in Congress and being Congress).
At the same time, the Congress leadership agrees that any disciplinary action against Tharoor will probably be a backfire. A senior Congress leader said on considering action against Tharoor, “His popular appeal, especially in urban India, is not in the party.” His standing has increased at a time when Kerala, his home state, is going to elections in less than a year.
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As it is, a part of the party, close to the Congress High Command, was incited with Tharoor, which was earlier to accept the Center’s invitation to lead a multi-party delegation on Operation Sindoor without demanding the consent of the first leadership. His public statements during the journey have only deepened the rift.
On 29 May, addressing a meeting of the Indian community in Panama, Tharoor said “for the first time, India violated the line of control between India and Pakistan to carry out a surgical strike on a terrorist basis.” “Even during the Kargil War, we did not cross the locker; we did it in Uri. Then there was an attack in Pulwama … This time we not only crossed the LoC, but also [also] The international border and we hit a terrorist headquarters in Balkot. ,
He said, “And I should tell you that this new is going to be normal. The PM has made it clear that the operation sindoor was necessary because these terrorists came and erased Sindhor from the forehead of 26 women,” he said.
These comments made the Congress leadership so much that it supported statements by party worker Udit Raj, known for its controversial comments, that Tharoor should consider becoming a BJP spokesperson. Tharoor hit back, Reject such critics As “ze from and” trolls “.
Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera, considered close to Rahul Gandhi, immediately produced excerpts from Tharoor’s own book to highlight the contradiction in his position. In your 2018 book Contradictory prime ministerTharoor had reported that in the government, the Congress had authorized several cross-border surgical strikes, but he did not politically exploit him-a claim that his statement fought that India crossed the LoC for the first time in 2016 under Modi.
As a military raid of shameless exploitation of 2016 ‘surgical strikes’ with the line of control with Pakistan, and a military raid in the warm discovery of the rebels in Myanmar, as a party election tool-Congress had never done so despite authorizing many such strikes earlier-which was a particularly derogatory for national security, which requires national security issues.
Currently in Colombia, Tharoor is yet to reply to Khera. However, in 2018 he has made a tweet to introduce his book.
“My new book, The Padoxical Prime Minister, is more than just 400-Page exercises in Floccinaucinihilipilification,” Tharoor was Tharur PostedEmphasizing that the book was more than the Prime Minister’s criticism. Perhaps Khera should pay attention.
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(Edited by Prashant)