Tharoor also said critics and trolls are welcome to "distort" his views and words as they see fit and he "genuinely" has "better things to do".

The Congress leader, who is leading a multi-party delegation to five countries, while speaking in Panama, reportedly said that when "for the first time" India breached the LoC between India and Pakistan to conduct a surgical strike on a terror base that was something we had not done before.