Kochi, July 19 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, while addressing the issues related to party high command, stated that sometimes it is necessary to cooperate with other parties in the interest of national security.

Tharoor while speaking during an event in Kochi, was answering a student's query related to his relations with the Congress party leadership.

The Congress MP emphasised that, for him, national security will always come first. According to him, the main perspective of any political party is to make a better India.

"Politics is unfortunately or otherwise in any democracy is about competition. As a result when people like me say it that we respect our parties we have certain values and convictions which keep us in our parties. Bu...