India, Nov. 25 -- Nearly a week after Shashi Tharoor's remarks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech set off a political firestorm, the Congress MP said that even his "neutral post" on the PM's address "has been attacked as praising the Prime Minister". He suggested that people should look beyond ideological purity and cooperate with the Centre to get things done.

Last week, Tharoor took to X to post in detail the references from PM Modi's speech at the sixth Ramnath Goenka Lecture, organised by The Indian Express.

Tharoor said he was glad to have been in the audience despite a bad cold and cough. He stated that the Prime Minister's speech "served as both an economic outlook and a cultural call to action, urging the nation to be rest...