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‘Rahul Occupied Congress’, Not Allowing MPs Part of the Op Sindoor Delegations to Speak in Parliament: BJP - The Statesman
INDIA, JUL 29 – Manish Tewari and Shashi Tharoor were excluded from the Congress speaker list for the Operation Sindoor debate due to their refusal to follow the party's critical stance on the government.
- On Tuesday, Congress MP Manish Tewari shared a cryptic X post after being excluded from the Operation Sindoor debate speaker list, attaching a news report.
- Amid post-Sindoor diplomacy, both MPs, who recently represented India abroad, were left off the Congress speaker list, highlighting internal disagreements.
- Meanwhile, Shashi Tharoor declined the invite, saying he could not toe the party line, and Tewari wrote to leadership requesting a slot but was denied.
- After the speaker list emerged, BJP leader Baijayant Jay Panda seized on the controversy, criticizing Congress for blocking Tharoor from speaking, highlighting internal discord.
- Amid growing internal discord, the Indian National Congress's sidelining of senior voices signals deeper rifts and risks weakening party cohesion.
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Both Manish Tewari and Shashi Tharoor were part of the all-party delegation that visited various countries to corner Pakistan on the issue of supporting terrorism after Operation Sindoor. However, this did not go down well with the Congress leadership and the names of these two MPs were not in the list of Congress speakers for the debate in the Lok Sabha.
‘Rahul Occupied Congress’, not allowing MPs part of the Op Sindoor delegations to speak in Parliament: BJP - The Statesman
The BJP leader said that Tharoor and Tewari were not allowed to speak as Congress fears they would tell the House how the world criticised the terror attack and stood with India.
‘Bharat ki baat sunata hoon’: Manish Tewari on being ‘benched’ by Cong during Op Sindoor debate
There had been intense speculation whether Tewari and Shashi Tharoor, both part of the diplomatic delegations that had been sent abroad to convey India's stand, would speak in the Lower House or not
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