Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday took a cryptic dig at his party, implying that his recent statements and actions that irked the top leadership had been an act of civility and not alignment.

Tharoor, a senior Congress leader, had been criticised by party leaders over his occasional praise for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, beginning when he was included in the Centre’s global outreach initiative after Operation Sindoor. Since then, Tharoor has made several statements that had been seen as against the party line.

The Thiruvananthapuram MP’s latest remarks came after poet and filmmaker Mehul Devkala defended Tharoor from a recent wave of trolling for wishing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other simple courtesies, saying that “it’s worth remembering that secularism, inclusivity a

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