{"id":3430,"date":"2025-11-09T12:41:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T12:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=3430"},"modified":"2025-11-09T12:41:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T12:41:54","slug":"like-always-cong-distances-itself-from-tharoors-praise-for-advani-cites-liberal-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=3430","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Like always\u2019: Cong distances itself from Tharoor\u2019s praise for Advani; cites &#8216;liberal spirit&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress has distanced itself from Shashi Tharoor&#8217;s praise for BJP veteran L.K. Advani, calling his remarks his own. These comments followed after the Thiruvananthapuram MP defended Advani&#8217;s long public service, comparing it to assessing Congress icons. This isn&#8217;t the first time Tharoor&#8217;s cross-party compliments have caused friction with the party leadership.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress has distanced itself from Shashi Tharoor&#8217;s praise for BJP veteran L.K. Advani, calling his remarks his own. These comments followed after the Thiruvananthapuram MP defended Advani&#8217;s long public service, <a href=\"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=3430\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}