Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), April 29 2025 (ANI): Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday hit back at his colleague Udit Raj after the latter questioned his political allegiance following his remarks on the Pahalgam terror attack. Speaking to the media, Tharoor asserted that he is not anyone's spokesperson but only speaks for himself. "I believe the person who said this is a former BJP MP, so you can ask him, he is better qualified to understand who speaks for the BJP...I think everybody knows that I am not a BJP spokesperson. I am not anyone's spokesperson. I speak for myself," Shashi Tharoor said.
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00:00First of all, I think everyone knows that I'm not a BJP spokesperson.
00:03I'm not anyone's spokesperson speaking for myself.
00:06I believe the person who said that is a former BJP MP, so you can ask him, he's better qualified
00:10to understand who speaks for the BJP.
00:30A Congress leader has said that is Shishi Therrur a BJP spokesperson.
00:52What do you see on this?
00:54First of all, I think everyone knows that I'm not a BJP spokesperson.
00:57I'm not anyone's spokesperson speaking for myself.
01:00I believe the person who said that is a former BJP MP, so you can ask him, he's better qualified
01:03to understand who speaks for the BJP.
01:06Sir, on the issue, right now China backs Pakistan, and they're also trying to keep missiles and
01:14other equipments.
01:15So what's your secret?
01:17Look, I think the government has to answer how it will deal with these matters, but I
01:22don't think we need to be intimidated by any such thing.
01:25We are not friendless in the world, and we also have our own capacity.
01:28There's a question, it's about yesterday, you talked about air, about all these incidents.
01:33On that, on that, your colleague, on the Saudis Raj, thank you.
01:37She just asked that question, I've just answered.
01:39Are you a BJP spokesperson?
01:41This is what your colleague said to you.
01:42I think you know the answer to that question, you don't need to answer.
01:45The gentleman who has apparently asked the question is himself a former BJP MP.
01:48Who is better qualified to answer that?
01:50I don't know if I was a BJP MP MP, but I'm a congressman today, so I'm a debtor.
01:58I have a offer, and I'm a congressman today, I'm a congressman.
02:04I'm a congressman, so I'm a congressman.
02:07I have a congressman here.
02:09I have a congressman.
02:11foreign
02:39and said that bricks are running,
02:43and the other thing is,
02:46that how did they take care of the people?
02:48So, we should tell the question.
02:55Our Rahaul says that we are going to talk about it,
02:58we are going to talk about it,
03:00but why not talk about it?
03:02Why are we going to talk about it?