Udit Raj questions colleague Tharoor's loyalty

Congress leader Udit Raj on Monday slammed his party colleague Shashi Tharoor over his remarks on the recent Pahalgam terror attack, while even questioning his loyalty to the party.

The terror attack in Pahalgam left 26 persons dead and at least 20 injured on April 22.

Raj said he wondered if Tharoor was speaking for the Congress or aligning himself with the ruling BJP government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

"I want to ask Tharoor, is he in the Congress or the BJP? Is he trying to become a super-BJP man?" he said.

Raj's remarks came a day after Tharoor said the attack might have resulted from an intelligence failure and compared it to the Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel.

Tharoor, however, had said people should not focus on the government's failures right now.

Tharoor had also said while successful prevention of terror attacks often goes unnoticed, failures tend to attract greater attention.

"We will never know about the various terror attacks that were successfully thwarted. We only learn about the ones that we failed to thwart. This is normal in any nation. There were failures, I agree, but that should not be our main focus right now...," Tharoor had stated.