New Delhi, May 29 -- Congress leader Pawan Khera has stirred controversy by sharing an excerpt from Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's 2018 book, The Paradoxical Prime Minister, highlighting Tharoor's criticism of the "shameless exploitation" of the 2016 surgical strikes as an election tool by the BJP.

https://x.com/Pawankhera/status/1927968448849612888

Khera's post on X, captioned, "I agree with that Dr @ShashiTharoor who wrote about surgical strikes in his book in 2018 - 'The Paradoxical Prime Minister'," appears to subtly critique Tharoor's recent remarks praising the Modi government's Operation Sindoor.

In the underlined passage from Tharoor's book, reads, "The shameless exploitation of the 2016 surgical strikes along the Line of Control...