New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor was absent from a meeting of the party’s Lok Sabha MPs chaired by Leader Of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi on Friday. This is the third time since late November that he has skipped key party discussions.

Reportedly, Tharoor had informed the leadership in advance, though the Congress chief whip claimed he was unaware of the reason for Tharoor's absence. Congress MP Manish Tewari was also absent from Friday’s meeting.

According to a post by journalist Runjhun Sharma, Tharror is currently in Russia.

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On November 30, Tharoor missed a strategy meeting led by Sonia Gandhi. “I did not skip it; I was on a plane, coming from Kerala,” Tharror had said on December

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