In what marks another flashpoint in Shashi Tharoor's worsening ties with the Congress, the senior leader has responded sharply to his party colleagues' jibes after he praised the Narendra Modi government's fight against terrorism. "Critics and trolls", he said, are welcome to distort his views and that he has "better things to do". Shortly after Mr Tharoor's post, senior Congress leader Pawan Khera shared an excerpt from Mr Tharoor's book in which he criticised the "shameless exploitation" of the 2016 surgical strikes as an "election tool".