Jaishankar a friend and able foreign minister, didn’t advise him to…: Shashi Tharoor

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said he has no difference of opinion with external affairs minister S Jaishankar over Jaishankar’s reaction to the incident of Khalistanis pulling Indian Flag down in London. “I regard him (Jaishankar) as a friend and a skilled and able foreign minister,” Shashi Tharoor said.

Explainin the context of his tweet, Tharoor said he has been informed that his ‘cool-off’ advice to Jaishankar which he gave earlier has been misconstrued and misinterpreted as Tharoor advised Jaishankar to cool off when the flag incident took place.

” Friends have forwarded me a message doing the rounds from the usual trolls claiming that my advice to EAM @DrSJaishankar to “cool it” was over his reaction to the incident of the Khalistanis pulling our flag down outside the Indian Embassy.

It wasn’t.

When that incident occurred I expressed outrage even before MEA did, since I was accosted by cameras at the Lok Sabha as soon as it happened. Outrage was indeed the most appropriate response,” Tharoor tweeted.

“It’s not our style to poke our fingers in the eyes of foreign countries without provocation. The flag incident was a provocation & India’s response was fitting,” Tharoor tweeted adding, “Let’s keep our foreign policy bipartisan. We are all Indians & all that matters should be our national interest.”