New Delhi, Nov. 30 -- Congress Working Committee Member and MP Shashi Tharoor missed the meeting of the Congress' strategic group led by Sonia Gandhi, regarding the winter session of Parliament.

However, Tharoor's office stated that he was in Kerala and was travelling back with his 90-year-old mother on a later flight. It is important to note that, due to campaigning for the local body elections, the General Secretary of the Congress, K.C. Venugopal, was also unable to reach Delhi for Sunday's meeting.

Tharoor recently missed a Congress meeting called on the SIR issue, citing ill health. However, questions arose when he attended PM Modi's event a day earlier. Posts praising the PM also appeared on his Instagram. Following his comments o...