India, July 20 -- Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said that the country must always come before party interests. Quoting former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Tharoor said, "Who lives if India dies?" He added that national unity must override political rivalry.

Shashi Tharoor was responding to a question from a 'high school' student in Kochi about the backlash he has faced from his own party over his cross-party diplomatic outreach and nationalistic stance in recent times, especially after the Pahalgam terror attack.

The Thiruvananthapuram MP said, "Put your differences aside when the nation is imperilled. India must come first, then only can we all live."

Tharoor, a Congress Working Committee member, reiterated tha...