India, Oct. 15 -- Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday seemed to double down on his earlier take on the "silence" of the Indian-American diaspora on matters affecting the India-US ties. Tharoor welcomed the letter a group of United States Congress members wrote to President Donald Trump urging a reset of ties with India, and said he was "delighted by the move".

Heaping praise on the letter, that had called for prompt steps to restore balance in the bilateral relationship, Tharoor said in a tweet: "When i questioned the silence of the diaspora, it was to express concern that they were not pressing their political representatives to take a stand like this. If influential American politicians can speak up with or without diaspora pre...