Jammu/Srinagar, June 23 -- Congress MP and chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on external affairs Shashi Tharoor's remarks about "encouraging progress towards normalcy" in Jammu and Kashmir, made after a meeting with lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha, have not gone down well with his party here.

"We discussed the situation in the state and the encouraging progress towards normalcy.Many challenges remain and much remains to be done, but I left the meeting feeling more positive than I have felt for a while," Tharoor posted on Sunday while sharing a photograph with the LG in Srinagar.

Taking exception to the Tharoor's post, chief spokesperson of the J-K Pradesh Congress Committee Ravinder Sharma said he should have met the peop...