Congress Rift Deepense: K Muralidharan criticized the stand of Shashi Tharoor at the center; Bars her with events in Thiruvananthapuram. Bharat News
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader K Muraliharan on Sunday launched a brilliant attack against fellow party MP Shashi Tharoor, announcing that the MP of Thiruvananthapuram would not be invited to any Congress incidents in the state capital unless he changes his position on national security affairs.Muralifran, a prominent person in the Kerala Congress unit, said Tharoor was no longer seen as “one of us” and a hint on possible disciplinary action from the party’s national leadership.Muraliharan told reporters, “As long as he (Tharoor) changes his stand, we will not invite him to any party program held in Thiruvananthapuram. He is not with us, so there is no question of boycotting an incident,” Murliharan told reporters, stated by PTI.His comment was a day later, when Tharoor, a member of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), defended his stand on national security at an event in Kochi. Tharoor said, “In my mind, the nation comes first. Parties are a means to improve the nation.” He faced criticism from within the party to support the armed forces and the central government on recent national security issues.Tharoor said, “But I will stand on my land because I believe it is the right thing for the country,” When leaders like him advocate cross-party cooperation in the interest of national security, their own parties often see it as chaos, something that they have described as a “big problem”.Also Read: ‘Bizing the Gap’: Shashi Tharoor welcomed us to take us to TRF; Slam Pakistan’s safe shelter policyThis is not the first time Muralidharan has publicly criticized Tharoor. Earlier, he excavated an MP on the sharing of a survey that suggested that Tharoor was the most favorite candidate of the United Democratic Front for the Chief Minister. According to PTI, Muraliharan said, “They should first decide which party he belongs to.”The tension between Tharoor and the Congress is increasing, especially after their comments after the Pahalgam terror attack, which the party leaders believe that the Congress’s situation weakened. Muraliharan also criticized Tharoor on a newspaper article, in which the MP questioned for dealing with former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s emergency. Muralifran said that if Tharoor feels compelled within the Congress, he should choose a “clear political way”.
