"Don't Ask Permission To...": Shashi Tharoor's Post After M Kharge's Snub | Read

Hours after Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge snubbed party leader Shashi Tharoor over his praise for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Thiruvananthapuram MP put up a post on X that was widely seen as a reply to his party colleagues' barbs. "Don't ask permission to fly. The wings are yours. And the sky belongs to no one," read the message with a bird's photograph.  Weighing in on the chatter over Mr Tharoor's praise for Prime Minister Modi, party chief Kharge today said it's "country first for us, but for some people, it's Modi first". This is, by far, the strongest snub to Mr Tharoor from the Congress leadership. Earlier, Mr Tharoor's party colleagues fired barbs at him over his remarks in the aftermath of the Pahalgam attack and Operation Sindoor.