New Delhi, Feb. 15 -- Defending his praise for Prime Minister Narendra Modi following his meeting with US President Donald Trump, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said the PM spoke with India's interests in mind and his US visit had yielded some positive outcomes for the Indian people.

Welcoming the agreement to hold trade and tariff negotiations over the next nine months, Tharoor said: "It's far better than Washington hastily and unilaterally imposing tariffs on us, which could have hurt our exports. To my mind, something good has been achieved, and I applaud that as an Indian. We can't always speak only in terms of party interests. I am not a party spokesman."

Emphasising that as an elected MP from Thiruvananthapuram, he speaks ...