New Delhi, Feb. 26 -- Indian media reports that popular parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor and the Congress Party may be headed for splitsville are not surprising. What is surprising is that it has taken them this long.

Of course, there is nothing official to suggest that Dr. Tharoor may be contemplating leaving the party that he joined in 2009 but there are media murmurings. So far It is entirely possible that he may not leave the party at all. However, since October 2022, when he contested in the party's internal elections for Congress president against Mallikarjun Kharge, the candidate handpicked by the materfamilias Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul, Tharoor's future has been murky.

Known and often targeted for his candor, Tharoor has alwa...