New Delhi, June 26 -- Taking a sharp jibe at Shashi Tharoor, Congress leader Sukhdeo Bhagat compared the Thiruvananthapuram MP to an arrogant kite that fails to recognise the Congress ideology supporting his rise. Bhagat further stressed the importance of acknowledging the foundational support behind one's success.

Bhagat told ANI, "You must have seen many kites in the sky. When a kite flies very high, it becomes arrogant. But when the string is cut, the kite falls on the ground. Then it realises that the string was in someone else's hands. The string is in the hands of Congress, in the hands of Congress' ideology. I am not talking about cutting it, I am talking about realising that it is because of that string that you are at such a hei...