Senior Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor has given a big statement regarding Prime Minister Modi on Saturday (January 24, 2026) amid speculations of displeasure with the party. He said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi considers the Constitution sacred. Citing Prime Minister Modi’s address to the US Congress in 2016, he said that in that speech, PM Modi had called the Constitution as his holy book.
Addressing the Kerala Literature Festival (KLF) held in Kozhikode, Kerala, Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor said that the Indian Constitution has proved itself on the test of time. He said that the Constitution has also seen the period when a party came to power, whose ideological progenitor, the RSS, had once openly rejected the Constitution. Despite this the Constitution remained intact.
He reminded that after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power, the discussion had intensified that the party could abolish the Constitution. During this time he met RSS ideologue K. N. Also mentioned were the reports related to the writing of the draft of the new Constitution by Govindacharya.
What did Congress MPs say about Operation Sindoor?
Regarding his stand on Operation Sindoor, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said that he had taken a strong stand on this issue and he has no regrets on it. In one of his columns written after the Pahalgam terror attack, Tharoor said that he had clearly written that this attack should not be left unpunished. He said that he was surprised when the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the same step which he had recommended.
At the same time, in an interview given to news agency PTI, Shashi Tharoor said that he has some issues within the party, which he will raise with the leadership. He stressed that internal differences should be discussed within the organization and not on the public platform. He also said that he has never violated the party line in Parliament.
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