New Delhi, June 25 -- Hours after Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge took a veiled jibe at Shashi Thaoor, saying he is in Congress Working Committee "because his English is very good", the party MP from Thiruvananthapuram made a cryptic post amid an apparent unease in his ties with the party.

Kharge, who addressed a press conference slamming the Modi government, took another dig at Thaoor, saying "some people say Modi first, country later". Tharoor had recently praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a newspaper article.

"Shashi Tharoor's English is very good, that's why he has been taken in CWC (Congress Working Committee). I supported this," Kharge said.

"But what I want to say is that all of us, the entire opposition, have come toget...