Rift deepens as Tagore raps Tharoor, says 'even a free bird must watch sky'

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.

- PREETHA NAIR @New Delhi

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...".