Hours after it was known that he would not be among Congress speakers during the debate on ‘Operation Sindoor’ in the Lok Sabha, Manish Tewari on Tuesday posted patriotic poetic rhymes on his official X handle.
In a post on X, the Congress leader quoted a report by Moneycontrol and shared the lyrics of the song "Bharat Ka Rehne Wala Hoon" from the Bollywood movie "Purab Aur Paschim," which was released in 1970.
है प्रीत जहां की रीत सदामैं गीत वहां के गाता हूं
भारत का रहने वाला हूं
भारत की बात सुनाता हूं
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Hai preet jahaan ki reet sada
Main geet wahaan ke gaata hoon
Bharat ka rehne waala hoon
Bharat ki baat sunata hoon
- Jai Hind pic.twitter.com/tP5VjiH2aD
— Manish Tewari (@ManishTewari) July 29, 2025
“Hai preet jahaan ki reet sada Main geet wahaan ke gaata hoon Bharat ka rehne waala hoon Bharat ki baat sunata hoon - Jai Hind,” Tewari posted on X. In English, it roughly means “where love is the tradition forever, I sing the songs of that land. I am a resident of India, and I speak of India’s glory."
Tewari, along with Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who were part of the delegations India sent to various nations to highlight its stand against cross-border terrorism, were reportedly excluded from the speakers’ list on the "Operation Sindoor" debate.
Amar Singh, the Fatehgarh Sahib MP who was part of a delegation, is also not on the list. Veteran Congress leaders Anand Sharma and Salman Khurshid were part of the delegations. However, they are not sitting MPs.
The Congress and Centre had been at loggerheads over the constitution of the delegations that travelled abroad after Operation Sindoor on behalf of the government. The Congress accused the Centre of indulging in “cheap politics” by not picking its choices such as deputy floor leader in the Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi and Punjab MP Amrinder Singh Raja Warring.
The party was particularly upset over the Centre choosing Tharoor, a former diplomat who heads the Parliamentary Committee on External Affairs, to be a member of one of the delegations, as it followed several issues on which the Congress MP was at odds with his party.
According to a report in The Indian Express, Tewari wanted to participate in the discussion and had even written a letter to the party leadership expressing his desire to speak. However, Congress decided against fielding him.
The Parliament began the three-day debate on the Pahalgam terror attack and Operation Sindoor from Monday, following a week of disruption.
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