New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor ignited yet another controversy within the party ranks by praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday.

He praised the Prime Minister for outlining India’s economic direction and urging the nation to reclaim pride in its heritage. ADVERTISEMENT

Modi, in his address at the sixth Ramnath Goenka Lecture on Monday, had said: “After winning the Bihar elections, some Modi-lovers in the media have started saying that Modi and the BJP remain in election mode 24×7… They do not know we have to remain in emotional mode, not election mode.”

He also spoke extensively about British historian Thomas Babington Macaulay’s influence on India’s education system through the 1835 ‘Minute on Indian Education’, which promoted English as the primary medium of instruct

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