India, July 11 -- Shashi Tharoor and his critical takes - the latest being on the Emergency - have led to renewed swipes from within from his party Congress, deepening questions about his future plans.

A day after Tharoor mentioned "cruelty" inflicted on the poor during the Emergency imposed during Indira Gandhi's regime in 1975, Congress MP Manickam Tagore resumed not-so-veiled digs at Tharoor.

"When a colleague starts repeating BJP lines word for word, you begin to wonder - Is the bird becoming a parrot? Mimicry is cute in birds, not in politics," Tagore posted on X.

Further, from Tharoor's home state of Kerala, which goes to polls next year, a senior Congress leader was more direct, asking him to pick a side.

"He should first decid...