Kolkata: The relationship between Shashi Tharoor, the prominent Lok Sabha MP and the party he belongs to is only getting more strained. After receiving backlash from some Congress leaders for being part of the Centre’s delegation to foreign lands on the topic of Operation Sindoor, Tharoor has now delivered a sharp response. Reportedly, his party colleagues took a jab at the veteran politicians for praising the Narendra Modi government’s fight against terrorism.

He said that “critics and trolls are welcome to distort his views while he has “better things to do”. Notably, Tharoor is heading a delegation as part of the Centre’s global outreach after the Pahalgam terror attack and Operation Sindoor. The delegation has attended events in the US and Panama and is now headed to Bogota.

Tharoor posted from his official X (formerly Twitter) account, “After a long........

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