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Rift deepens as Tagore raps Tharoor, says 'even a free bird must watch sky'
The New Indian Express Coimbatore
|June 27, 2025
IN a sign of deepening rift between the Congress and party MP Shashi Tharoor, party leader Manickam Tagore took to social media with "even a free bird must watch the skies" jibe against his party colleague.
On Thursday, Tagore, Congress' whip in the Lok Sabha, wrote on X, "Don't ask permission to fly. Birds don't need clearance to rise. But today even a free bird must watch the skies -- hawks, vultures, and 'eagles' are always hunting. Freedom isn't free, especially when the predators wear patriotism as feathers." He also shared a chart with the list of birds known as "hunters of the sky".
His response came a day after Tharoor put out a cryptic post on X with an image of a bird and this caption: "Don't ask permission to fly. The wings are yours. And the sky belongs to no one...".
This story is from the June 27, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Coimbatore.
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