The Congress party distanced itself Sunday from Shashi Tharoor’s remarks praising BJP leader LK Advani, stating the MP speaks for himself and his continued role as a CWC member reflects the party’s democratic and liberal values.

The opposition party’s remarks came after Tharoor, reacting to criticism over his birthday greetings for Advani, said reducing the veteran BJP leader’s long years of service to one episode, however significant, is unfair.

The Thiruvananthapuram MP also said that when the totality of Jawaharlal Nehru’s career cannot be judged by the China setback and Indira Gandhi’s by the Emergency alone, he believes “we should extend the same courtesy to Advaniji”.

Congress’ media and publicity department head Pawan Khera said, “Like always, Dr. Shashi Tharoor speaks for himsel

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