Soon after Kharge's remarks at a press conference here, Tharoor put out a cryptic post on X in which there was an image of a bird with the caption -- "Don't ask permission to fly. The wings are yours.

Responding to this, Tagore wrote on X, "Don't ask permission to fly. Birds don't need clearance to rise... But in today even a free bird must watch the skies--hawks, vultures, and 'eagles' are always ...