New Delhi, May 13 -- Congress Member of Parliament (MP) Shashi Tharoor is being labeled as 'principal spokesman' for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government with regard to his stand on ceasefire between India and Pakistan and what US President Donald Trump administration's 'mediation' role might have been in this regard.

Trump has suggested that the US mediated between the two neigbouring countries during the last week's conflict after India's Operation Sindoor hitting nine terror bases in Pakistan in the aftermath of Pahalgam terror attack.

Tharoor, in an interview with Karan Thapar, can be heard objecting to Trump's mediation claims. Mediation, Tharoor said in the interview, would have been if S Jaishankar (EAM) called Americans a...