Thiruvananthapuram, Feb. 16 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said he was bemused by the row over his apparent praise for Left Democratic Front (LDF) government's industrial policy in Kerala

After his article in an English daily drew criticism from his fellow Congress leaders in Kerala , Tharoor said that his article does not seek to be a survey of the entire Kerala economy, which "remains in dire straits". He said that he wrote in the article about the specific subject, the changed industrial climate as evidenced by the start-up ecosystem alone.

"First of all, I wrote it as a Kerala MP on one specific subject, the changed industrial climate as evidenced by the start-up ecosystem alone," Tharoor said in a post on X.

He said that ...