Congress MP Shashi Tharoor in an interview to ANI on Indian cricketers refusing to shake hands with Pakistani cricketers:
"I personally feel that once the decision had been made to play, if we feel so strongly about Pakistan, we should not have played...But if we are going to play them, we should play in the spirit of a game, and we should have shaken their hands...We have done this before in 1999,when the Kargil War was going on. On the very day the soldiers were dying for our country, we were playing the World Cup in England against Pakistan. We were shaking their hands even then because the spirit of the game is a different spirit from what goes on between countries, between Armies and so on. That is my view. If the Pakistani team, having been insulted the first time, decided to insult us back the second time, it shows that the spirit of the game is lacking on both sides..,"
This was before Pakistan reaching the final
Why are they suddenly changing their tone towards Pakistan?
This guy was sent by BJP all around the world to give bad press towards Pakistan but failed spectacularly