Those who think working in national interest is anti-party need to question themselves'

PEOPLE who consider working in national interest as anti-party activities need to question themselves, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has said even as he brushed aside speculations over his quitting the main opposition party.

- SHUJA UL HAQ AND YOSHITA SINGH

Tharoor, currently in the US leading a multi-party delegation on Operation Sindoor, has been under attack by some Congress leaders who have recently attacked him for supporting the government's stand following the Pahalgam attack.

The Congress leader has even been dubbed as the "super spokesperson of the BJP by one of his party colleagues.

"Frankly, when one is doing the nation's service, I don't think one needs to worry too much about these things," Tharoor said here in an interview with PTI Videos on Wednesday.

"I think anybody who sort of considers that working in the national interest is some sort of anti-party activity really needs to question themselves rather than us," he said when asked what his message would be to his detractors upon his return to India.

Tharoor's remarks have at times been at variance with the Congress party's official stand on certain issues.