Tharoor emphasised that the all-party parliamentary delegation is in the US to enhance understanding and clarify India’s stance and explain if there are any misapprehensions on the part of interlocutors. He said that all the arty delegation just wants to explain India’s stance, and they do not want nations to do anything other than to understand India’s point of view.When asked about the outcomes agreed upon or India expects from this visit in terms of US action with regards to Pakistan, he responded, “We aren’t really here to negotiate outcomes. That’s the job of the government. Our job is to enhance understanding, to clarify our position and to explain if there are any questions or misapprehensions on the part of our interlocutors, we’d be very happy to address them. There wasn’t a specific seek on our part beyond that. It’s not that we’ve come here saying, would you do this for us? That’s not what this is all about and that’s true by the way every country we’ve been to.””We’re just saying, this is our position, we want you to understand, and if you have any questions, we’ll answer them, but that’s it. We’re not asking them to do anything other than to understand our point of view, to express their solidarity and to stand with us if it happens again. I mean, we have no illusions. These buildings we’ve destroyed and the terror camps can be built again in six months, nine months, who knows? The problem is, if they think they can keep doing this to us, they’ve got another thing coming because we are not going to take it. If they hit us, we will hit them back. And we want the world to understand not only what just happened, but what could happen again if Pakistan does not control these elements on its soil,” he added.The delegation led by Tharoor arrived in the US on Wednesday. The delegation includes Shambhavi Chaudhary (Lok Janshakti Party), Sarfaraz Ahmed (Jharkhand Mukti Morcha), G M Harish Balayogi (Telugu Desam Party), Shashank Mani Tripathi, Tejaswi Surya, Bhubaneswar Kalita (all from BJP), Mallikarjun Devda (Shiv Sena), former Indian Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu, and Shiv Sena MP Milind Deora.
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