NEW DELHI: Senior Congress chief Ok Muraleedharan on Sunday launched a scathing assault in opposition to fellow get together MP Shashi Tharoor, declaring that the Thiruvananthapuram parliamentarian is not going to be invited to any Congress occasions within the state capital till he modifies his place on nationwide safety issues.Muraleedharan, a outstanding determine within the Kerala Congress unit, mentioned Tharoor was now not seen as “one in every of us” and hinted at potential disciplinary motion from the get together’s nationwide management.“Until he (Tharoor) modifications his stance, we is not going to invite him to any get together programme held in Thiruvananthapuram. He’s not with us, so there is no such thing as a query of him boycotting an occasion,” Muraleedharan informed reporters, as quoted by PTI.His remarks got here a day after Tharoor, a Congress Working Committee (CWC) member, defended his stand on nationwide safety at an occasion in Kochi. Tharoor mentioned, “To my thoughts, the nation comes first. Events are a way of constructing the nation higher.” He acknowledged dealing with criticism from inside the get together for supporting the armed forces and the central authorities on current nationwide safety points.“However I’ll stand my floor as a result of I consider that is the correct factor for the nation,” Tharoor mentioned, including that when leaders like him advocate cross-party cooperation within the curiosity of nationwide safety, their very own events usually view it as disloyalty, one thing he described as “a giant drawback.”Additionally Learn: ‘Bridging the hole’: Shashi Tharoor welcomes US’ transfer on TRF; slams Pakistan’s secure haven coverageThis isn’t the primary time Muraleedharan has publicly criticised Tharoor. Earlier, he took a dig on the MP over the sharing of a survey that instructed Tharoor was the United Democratic Entrance’s most most well-liked candidate for chief minister. “He ought to first determine which get together he belongs to,” Muraleedharan had mentioned, based on PTI.Tensions have been rising between Tharoor and the Congress, significantly after his feedback following the Pahalgam terror assault, which some get together leaders consider weakened the Congress’s place. Muraleedharan additionally criticised Tharoor over a newspaper article by which the MP questioned former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s dealing with of the Emergency. Muraleedharan mentioned that if Tharoor feels constrained inside the Congress, he ought to select a “clear political path.”