India, June 25 -- The ongoing rift between the Congress party and Shashi Tharoor seems to have intensified after the MP praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a recent article. In his first response to the controversy, Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge stated that for the party, "it is country first", contrasting it with the view that "for some" individuals, "Modi first and then the country comes."

A cryptic post on Shashi Tharoor's X account after Mallikarjun Kharge's remarks later read, "Don't ask permission to fly."

Kharge made these remarks at a press conference in the national capital while marking the anniversary of the Emergency period imposed by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi from 1975 to 1977. He also respond...