Goa, June 5 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has stirred an internal debate within his party after openly applauding the central government's handling of Operation Sindoor-India's military response to the deadly terror attack in Pahalgam. Tharoor, who is currently leading a multi-party parliamentary delegation abroad, asserted that national interest must transcend party lines.

"When one is serving the nation, political calculations should not matter," Tharoor said during a press briefing in the United States. "Those who believe working in the national interest is anti-party need to introspect, not question us."

His remarks, made while representing India on an international diplomatic mission, were seen by some within Congress as unusually ...