India, May 28 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday defended Shashi Tharoor against remarks made by fellow Congress party member Udit Raj, stating that he was being attacked by his own party for keeping national interest above the Gandhi family.

Congress party leader Udit Raj had taken to X to criticise Tharoor's claim that India had crossed the Line of Control between India and Pakistan for the first time in 2016. He had also called Tharoor a "BJP super spokesperson," and stated that he had diminished the history of the Congress.

BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla reacted sharply to Udit Raj's comments on Tharoor, claiming that the Congress was "launching missiles at its leader" at the behest of Rahul Gandhi.

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