New Delhi: On a day he spoke about his presence at a lecture being delivered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi “despite battling a bad cold and cough”, senior MP and Congress Working Committee (CWC) member Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday skipped a meeting called by the party leadership to review the contentious Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in 12 states.

A meeting of Congress leaders, including CWC members, from 12 states where SIR is underway, were invited to the meeting with CWC members like P Chidambaram and Digvijaya Singh attending the deliberations to review the exercise and decide on a plan to take forward its protests on ‘vote chori’.

Tharoor did not attend the Congress meet even as he posted on ‘X’ that he attended a function where Modi delivered the Ramnath Goenka Lecture o

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