India, May 11 -- Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said that prolonging the conflict with Pakistan is not the biggest priority for India right now, while dismissing the comparisons between former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's actions in the 1971 war with those of the current escalation after Operation Sindoor.

Shashi Tharoor's remarks come as social media was abuzz with comparisons between Indira Gandhi and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with Congress leaders also joining in.

"1971 was a great achievement. Indira Gandhi rewrote the map of the subcontinent, but the circumstances were different. Bangladesh was fighting a moral cause, and liberating Bangladesh was a clear objective. Just keeping on firing shells at Pakistan is not...