Utterances of Khurshid, Shashi Tharoor leave Congress red-faced

Indian National Congress, the grand old political party of India, has been experiencing something that could be described as political independence among its leaders with people like Shashi Tharoor and, off late, Salman Khurshid, expressing their views on issues of national importance openly without worrying too much about the party line.

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Khurshid, a Congress veteran who also served as External Affairs Minister in the party government, has recently expressed concern over political divisions in India when the Narendra Modi government is busy exposing Pakistan on the matter of terrorism.

He asked why it is so difficult to be patriotic, especially when the entire country is united and trying to explain to the whole world how Pakistan has been troubling India, using terrorism as a state policy, for decades.

"When on a mission against terrorism, to carry India's message to the world, it's distressing that people at home are calculating political allegiances. Is it so difficult to be patriotic?" the Congress veteran posted on X.