Tharoor should have told Cong: Gehlot on all-party delegation
Jaipur, May 20 -- Former chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday said that the Congress MP Shashi Tharoor did "wrong by not informing the party leadership about his appointment to lead an all-party delegation" to key partner countries, including members of the United Nations Security Council later this month to convey India's message of zero tolerance against terrorism following the Pahalgam terror attack and Operation Sindoor.
Addressing reporters at Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee headquarter in Jaipur, he said, "We respect him. He has remained a foreign minister and has also delivered lectures at the UN. We respect his experience. He is a nice person. It is also possible that anyone from the government or the opposition party offers him such a job. But it was Tharoor's duty to inform the party."
He added: "He should have consulted whether he or his party would get into any fuss if he accepted this offer. Had he told the party about the matter before, it would have never been an issue in the country. He did wrong there and the government's mischievous mentality has been exposed."
Taking a dig at the parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiu, Gehlot also said that the "The BJP is playing a mischievous game with the opposition party".
Commenting on the matter, BJP spokesperson Laxmikant Bharadwaj said, "The Congress sent the name of Gaurav Gogoi whose wife has a link to Pakistsan. Rest of the names also had some comment on Pakistan. Nobody could have a better idea about foreign policies than Shashi Tharoor. Why didn't they consider his name beforehand?"
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