The indigenous Tejas MK-1 LCA was missing from the Fire Power Demonstration after the entire fleet was grounded following a runway incident earlier this month.
Tharoor’s clarification comes amid renewed political scrutiny of his public statements and diplomatic engagements, particularly those made while representing India abroad.
Tharoor said that, as an observer and writer, he had written a newspaper column after the Pahalgam incident, stating that it should not go unpunished and that there should be a kinetic response.