Wayanad, Jan. 4 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Sunday expressed serious concern over the US' military action in Venezuela, during which they captured the country's president and deposed dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife, warning that the incident reflected a growing trend of "might is right" in global affairs with serious implications for the international order.

Reacting to the US operation in the South American nation's capital of Caracas, Tharoor described the development as momentous, noting that it was rare to see a country enter and detain the head of a sovereign UN member state.

"It is a momentous event. You don't see every day a country marching in and capturing the president of a sovereign nation, a member state of the Uni...