‘Cool it a bit,’ Shashi Tharoor urges S Jaishankar on reacting to remarks by Western countries

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday said that the government should not be “thin-skinned” about comments by Western countries about India’s democracy, reported, ANI.

Tharoor was responding to a question about External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s statement from April 2 that the West has a bad habit of commenting on others. Jaishankar spoke in the context of statements by Germany and the United States about Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from Parliament.

“...The West has had a bad habit for a long time of commenting on others,” Jaishankar had said in response to a question about the statements of the two countries. “They somehow think it is some kind of God-given right. They will have to learn only by experience that if you keep doing this, other people will also start commenting and they will not like it when it happens. I see that happening.”

However, Tharoor on Monday said that the government must learn to take some things in its stride.

“I have known him [Jaishankar] for a long time and consider him as a friend but on this issue, I think we need not be so thin-skinned,” the Thiruvananthapuram MP said. “...If we start reacting to every comment, we are doing ourselves a disservice. I would strongly urge my good friend...

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