Overview
- Tharoor reposted Civitas Sameer’s X thread, calling its framing “thoughtful” and “fair,” as it contrasted his approach with Rahul Gandhi’s rural turn.
- The thread places Tharoor in a 1990s urban, institution-oriented tradition linked to PV Narasimha Rao, Manmohan Singh, SM Krishna, and Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
- It argues Congress is neither a credible urban reformist nor a serious rural mass party, casting the party’s identity as oppositional rather than aspirational.
- Rahul Gandhi is depicted as leading a reactive, post-2010 rural strategy lacking organisational depth, a critique Tharoor amplified by resharing.
- Congress’s Pawan Khera and the BJP’s Shehzad Poonawalla weighed in, as Tharoor’s missed meetings, praise for some government policies, and attendance at a state banquet for Vladimir Putin drew fresh scrutiny.