Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, before leaving for five countries to project India’s national consensus on combating terrorism, on Friday said that India will not be silenced by terrorism. He also called the tour “a mission of peace and hope".
In a video message posted on X, Tharoor said, “I’m heading off to five countries leading an all-party delegation to Guyana, Panama, Colombia, Brazil and the United States, and the reason we are going is to speak for the nation, to speak about this horrendous crisis we were subjected to in which our country was attacked by terrorists in the cruellest possible way."
He highlighted that the delegation will bring to attention the values India stands for which have to be preserved in the world today.
Tharoor said, “We need to speak up with clarity and conviction for our country, for our response and to give the world the message that we will not be silenced by terrorism and we don’t want the world to look away either."
“We don’t want indifference to triumph over the truth. It’s a mission of peace. It’s a mission of hope. And it’s a mission that will one day remind the world that India stands for all the values we need to preserve in the world today of peace, of democracy, of freedom, and not of hatred, killing and of terror. Jai Hind," Tharoor said.
Tharoor will be accompanied by other MPs from Group 5.
In another X post, Tharoor shared a photo of the delegation before it departed from Delhi.
The delegation was earlier briefed by Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri regarding the agenda of the global outreach being done to present India’s position against terrorism.
Tharoor mentioned that the aim of the delegations would be to sensitise opinion towards India.
The all-party delegations will project India’s national consensus and resolute approach to combating terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. They will convey to the world the country’s strong message of zero tolerance for terrorism.
The delegation led by Tharoor also has BJP’s Shashank Mani Tripathi, Bhubaneswar Kalita, and Tejasvi Surya, along with LJP (Ram Vilas)’s Shambhavi Choudhary, TDP’s GM Harish Balayogi, Shiv Sena’s Milind Deora, JMM’s Sarfaraz Ahmad, along with former Ambassador to the US, Taranjit Singh Sandhu.
