Shashi Tharoor Commends JMM MP Sarfaraz Ahmad for Joining Hindu, Sikh Colleagues in Temple Prayers at Panama

Shashi Tharoor Commends JMM MP Sarfaraz Ahmad for Joining Hindu: Panama City, May 28 (IANS) An Indian multi-party parliamentary delegation led by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor began its official engagements in Panama with a visit to the Indian Cultural Centre in Panama City, where members offered prayers at the local temple.

The visit was marked by a powerful moment of interfaith harmony as members from different religious backgrounds joined together in devotion.

Taking to social media platform X, Tharoor wrote in a post, "The multi-party MPs’ delegation visited the Indian Cultural Centre in Panama City and offered devotions at the beautiful temple there. It was moving to see our Muslim colleague Sarfraz Ahmed join his Hindu and Sikh colleagues at the temple. As he later told the audience, “jab bulane walon ko koi aitraaz nahin, toh jaane walo ko aitraaz kyon hoga?”

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All the members of the all-party delegation offered prayers and performed aarti at the temple, as shown in a video.

Before the visit to the temple, Shashi Tharoor addressed the Indian community in Panama and said that India’s desire to just be left alone is not “reciprocated by our friends on the other side of the border.”

“They (Pakistan) have chosen repeatedly to attack us because they believe that they want territory which they do not control, which we control. It is part of the sovereign borders of the United Indian, and we are not going to give it to them even if we have to pay the price that we have repeatedly been paid," he said.

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Apart from Tharoor, the delegation includes Lok Janshakti Party’s Shambhavi Chaudhary, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha’s Sarfaraz Ahmed, Telugu Desam Party’s G M Harish Balayagi, Bharatiya Janata party’s Shashank Mani Tripathi, Tejaswi Surya, and Bhubaneswar K Lata, Shiv Sena’s Mallikarjun Devda and Milind Deora, and former Indian Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu.

The delegation aims to brief international partners on India's response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack and its broader fight against cross-border terrorism while engaging with leaders in the United States, Guyana, Panama, Brazil, and Colombia.

The multi-party delegation, consisting of seven groups led by one MP each, has been initiated to counter global misinformation and highlight India's zero-tolerance policy on terrorism.

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