Tharoor draws fresh heat in Congress after praising PM Modi’s remarks at Delhi event
New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has once again stirred internal unease within his party after publicly highlighting and appreciating key points from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent address at a private event in the capital.
In a post on social media, Tharoor said the Prime Minister focused on India’s “constructive impatience for development” and described the country as moving from an “emerging market” to an “emerging model” in global discourse. Modi, according to Tharoor, spoke about India’s economic resilience through the pandemic and the Ukraine war, while also calling for a revival of traditional knowledge systems by dismantling what he termed a colonial mindset in education.
Modi also proposed a 10-year national mission aimed at strengthening pride in India’s heritage, languages and indigenous intellectual traditions, urging citizens to remain “restless for progress,” Tharoor noted.
The MP, who was seated between former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad and BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad during the programme, described the Prime Minister’s speech as “an economic outlook and a cultural call to action.” He remarked that Modi’s criticism of Western-style education referred to the legacy of Thomas Babington Macaulay, whose policies replaced traditional Indian knowledge systems during British rule.
Tharoor’s latest comments are expected to intensify discomfort in the Congress ranks, where he has often been viewed with suspicion for praising Modi on select occasions. His earlier remarks lauding the Prime Minister’s crisis management and calling him a “prime asset for India” have repeatedly sparked speculation of a shift towards the BJP, something he has consistently denied.
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Snowfall blocks two key roads providing alternative connectivity to Kashmir
Rajouri/Jammu (PTI): Traffic on the Mughal and Sinthan Top roads, which provide alternate connectivity to Kashmir, was temporarily suspended on Sunday due to light to moderate snowfall in the high-altitude areas of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.
However, traffic on the 270-kilometre Jammu-Srinagar national highway -- the only all weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country -- was plying as usual despite intermittent rains that ended the over one-and-a-half months long dry spell, they said.
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The Mughal road, which connects the twin border districts of Poonch and Rajouri with south Kashmir's Shopian, was closed for traffic as a precautionary measure after more than three inches of snow was recorded at Peer Ki Gali on Sunday afternoon.
A group of three tea vendors are left stranded on the road and efforts are on to evacuate them to safety, officials said.
After they were trapped in the snow, the vendors made passionate appeals through video messages urging the authorities to rescue them. The Border Roads Organisation has taken up snow clearance work and is trying to reach the stranded persons, officials said.
The Sinthan Top road, which connects Kishtwar and Doda districts in Jammu with south Kashmir's Anantnag, was also closed after moderate snowfall in the higher reaches.
Both the mountainous roads usually remain closed for several months due to heavy snowfall during winter.
