New Delhi:Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's X post Wednesday - a selfie with ex-Bharatiya Janata Party MP and current India men's cricket team coach Gautam Gambhir.

whom he praised for holding down "the second-hardest job in India, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi" - has provided the saffron party with more ammo with which to attack its rival, particularly before the April Assembly election in Kerala.The BJP's Shehzad Poonawalla led the charge.

On X this morning he drew picked up Tharoor's comment about the Prime Minister having the "hardest job" and drew parallels between cricket fans second-guessing Gambhir's coaching and tactics and the opposition doing the same to the PM, accusing the latter of acting against national interests.

"... Tharoor's acknowledgement that Prime Minister Modi has the hardest job in India... given how he is second-guessed by an opposition that puts parivarik (family) interests above Bharat's..."

Poonawalla also predicted "one more Congress fatwa against Tharoor", referring to continuing friction between the MP and his party, friction that seems to be burning bridges between them.

Source:Ndtv