Shashi Tharoor

Earlier on Wednesday, Tharoor had shared BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya's tweet where he had slammed Kejriwal for his "uncouth mannerism". On Wednesday, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was holding a virtual meeting with the chief ministers to review the Covid situation in the country, the posture in which Kejriwal was sitting raised quite a few eyebrows.

"For all those who've been enjoying themselves at @supriyaSule's & my expense over our brief exchange in the Lok Sabha, she was asking me a policy question because she was about to speak next. She was speaking softly so as not to disturb FarooqSahib, so i leaned over to hear her," Tharoor said in his first tweet.

The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Repeal Bill, 2022 seeks to annul the UAPA, 1967. Claiming that the UAPA has become the tool of abuse for the state, Tharoor said that 66 per cent of arrests under it do not involve any violence at all while the conviction rate under this Act is merely 2.4 per cent.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday asked senior party leader Shashi Tharoor to refrain from attending a CPI-M seminar to be held in April, directing him to listen to the Kerala leadership. The development came after he joined a meeting of Congress "rebels", apparently ditching the Congress's Kerala unit by planning to attend the Left's seminar.

Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president, K. Sudhakaran has once asked party leaders to refrain from attending CPI-M seminar to be held in April. Sudhakaran said that the state party has issued a ban on party leaders participating in the national level seminar to be organised by the CPI-M as part of its National Conference at Kannur and if anyone violates that they would have to face party action.

But State Congress president K. Sudhakaran has informed the two party veterans that they should not attend the seminar. "No way, they cannot attend the seminar because our cadres will not like it and it has been told to them," said a peeved Sudhakaran, who is known for his long running feud with the CPI-M at his home turf -- Kannur, which he represents in the Lok Sabha.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has hailed the Narendra Modi government's efforts in evacuating stranded Indians from Ukraine amid the ongoing war staged by Russia on Kiev and its stand on the issue in the international fora, but criticised the Central leadership for "indulging in PR exercise" over the crisis.