Congress MP Manickam Tagore on Thursday appeared to aim a sharp but indirect dig at his party colleague Shashi Tharoor, questioning whether Tharoor was echoing the BJP’s narrative on the Emergency.

Tagore’s cryptic message came after Tharoor, in an opinion piece published in the Malayalam daily Deepika, argued that the Emergency should not be remembered solely as a dark chapter in India’s history but that its complexities and lessons must be fully understood.

Taking to X, Tagore wrote, “When a colleague starts repeating BJP lines word for word, you begin to wonder — is the Bird becoming a parrot? Mimicry is cute in birds, not in politics”. Though he did not name Tharoor directly, the target of his post was clear.

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