Party entitled to opinion: Shashi Tharoor amid Congress heat on Op Sindoor outreach - video Dailymotion

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Shashi Tharoor affirmed his commitment to national service, stating he is “available for the country when needed.”

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00:00But are you sad or disappointed at the way in which your party reacted or your party

00:06colleagues reacted?

00:07Look, I mean, my party or my party leadership is entitled to its opinion of my abilities

00:13or lack thereof, and I think that is really for them to explain.

00:17I have absolutely no comment to make on that.

00:21I am honored to have been entrusted with the responsibility, and I will fulfill that

00:27responsibility, just as I have fulfilled every responsibility entrusted to me in my rather

00:33long working life, whether at the United Nations or in the Congress Party.

00:38I have fulfilled every task given to me with sincerity and commitment, and I intend to bring

00:44the same qualities to bear in my service in this particular mission.

00:49We are not talking about, you know, it's a 10-day affair.

00:52I'll be going to Delhi.

00:54In any case, we have a Parliamentary Standing Committee meeting on Monday and Tuesday on

00:58various issues, including on this particular issue.

01:01I'm assuming that I will get further details of the mission after going there, and we expect,

01:06I'm sure the delegation will get briefings from the Ministry of External Affairs, and we

01:12will proceed on that basis.

01:14I mean, I think that right now the focus is on a job of work that needs to be done for the

01:19country, and I'm truly honored to have been asked, and I will give my very best, as I

01:24always try to do.

01:26Have you informed the party when you received this invitation?

01:28Yes, indeed.

01:30No, I certainly informed them of the first call I got, which was two days ago, and I also

01:36mentioned to the minister who called me, who was a Parliamentary Affairs Minister, that

01:39I assumed that he would be talking to the party leaderships of opposition parties, and

01:43he assured me that he would be.

01:46He also let me know that I was not the only one he was calling.

01:49There are other opposition MPs that he was calling, and I found it entirely appropriate,

01:55as I said, that the country should rally together on this particularly important issue, and now

02:02that I've been entrusted with the task of leading one of the delegations, I intend to

02:05give it my best shot.

02:06Sir, is there any communication gap between you and the party?

02:11Because this happens continuously.

02:13This happens?

02:14This communication gap between you and your party.

02:16No, the party has my telephone number, and they can call me any time they like.

02:20I don't think there's any difficulty there.

02:23So as far as I'm concerned, I don't really see any communication gap.

02:28Sometimes one learns about certain statements from the media.

02:31That may mean that we have other means of communication as well, but I don't think there's a particular

02:37gap that I'm particularly worried about.

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