Tharoor has been viewed with some skepticim within the party for some time. One can date it right back to the time when he became one of the signatories (a group that would be dubbed G-23) to a letter demanding more democracy within the party. His expressing of views that have sometimes seemed to be in variance with those held by other seniors in the party haven't helped. The differences have magnified since Tharoor agreed to head one of the government's outreach delegations (to the US, Panama, Guyana, Brazil and Colombia), even though his name hadn't originally been suggested by his party, and praised Operation Sindoor. At one of the outreach events, in Panama, when Tharoor had spoken about how the government for the first time, 'breached the LoC between India and Pakistan to conduct a surgical strike on a terror base, a launch pad… (after) the Uri strike in September 2016', it led to a furor back home within the party. One would have expected the job profile of being a member such a delegation, and in fact heading it, would involve defending the government's actions, but the attacks from his party colleagues were severe, with one leader, Udit Raj, dubbing Tharoor BJP's super spokesperson on X, and Congress' senior leader and communications head Jairam Ramesh retweeting that post.