India, Nov. 9 -- The Congress has distanced itself from Shashi Tharoor's defence of BJP veteran LK Advani's Rath Yatra of the 1990s, saying that the Thiruvananthapuram MP "speaks for himself".

Chairman of the Congress Media and Publicity department, Pawan Khera, said that Tharoor making these kinds of statements as a member of the party's working committee and an MP shows Congress's 'liberal spirit'.

"Like always, Dr Shashi Tharoor speaks for himself, and the Indian National Congress outrightly dissociates itself from his most recent statement. That he continues to do so as a Congress MP and CWC member reflects the essential democratic and liberal spirit unique to INC," Pawan Khera wrote on X.

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