"What Rahul Gandhi Meant...": Shashi Tharoor Clarifies Remark That Upset Allies

Congress's Shashi Tharoor today played down Rahul Gandhi's comment on ideology that has upset several opposition parties.

The party's Jharkhand ally Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, Bihar ally Rashtriya Janata Dal, and former ally in Karnataka Janata Dal Secular have questioned Mr Gandhi's comment that only the Congress has the ideology"to take on the BJP.

In his address on the concluding day at the Congress "Chintan Shivir" in Rajasthan's Udaipur, Mr Gandhi had claimed that regional parties cannot fight the BJP-RSS as they lack ideology. Only the Congress can do that, he had said.