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Tharoor calls his critics 'zealots'
The New Indian Express Kottayam
|May 30, 2025
A fresh war of words erupted between Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and his party colleagues on Thursday, underscoring the growing rift between them.
After facing backlash for his remarks on the surgical strike by Indian forces in 2016 by breaching the Line of Control (LoC), he termed his censurers 'zealots'.
Tharoor took to social media to clarify his comments.
This story is from the May 30, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Kottayam.
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