India, April 3 -- Senior Congress leader and MP Shashi Tharoor did not name any opposition leader when asked about who could take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and emphasised the importance of prioritising principles and convictions over "individual personalities in India's parliamentary system".

Tharoor said a journalist had asked him about the alternative to PM Modi. He said that the question of who could be an alternative to PM Modi is "irrelevant" in the parliamentary because we do not elect an individual, but a party or coalition of parties.

"Yet again a journalist has asked me to identify an individual who is the alternative to Mr Modi," he wrote on X.

Tharoor said, unlike a presidential syst...