New Delhi/IBNS, March 19 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government's foreign policy on the Russia-Ukraine war in a massive embarrassment for his party which is consistent in slamming the incumbent.

Tharoor, an MP from Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram, also expressed his confidence in India's capabilities in forming a lasting peace in the war, which the US government under the Trump era is working to end.

"India is in a position where it can make a difference to a lasting peace if it was so required in ways that very few countries would be able to," the senior MP, who has remained a diplomat in the past, said.

During his inaugural visit to the US in February after Donald Trump returned to the Wh...