Shameful to see Shashi Tharoor liking tweets by ex Foreign Minister of Pakistan insulting India’s Army Chief! But t… https://t.co/Nh0zBwKm8S — Amit Malviya (@malviyamit) 1515945738000

We've all known how petty @BJP4India can be but this takes the biscuit. A "like" is a bookmark, not a sign of appro… https://t.co/Q9NWzI7fDo — Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) 1515954279000

@manukaushik not weird at all. I use "favorite" as a bookmark. Note lots of stuff, positive&negative&just plain interesting. — Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) 1360089682000

This is preposterous &unbecoming of a Foreign Minister. One can't be talking peace in Bangkok in December &threaten… https://t.co/IrwsyGsWX8 — Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) 1515954058000

NEW DELHI: BJP's Amit Malviya and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor today sparred on Twitter after the latter "liked" a tweet by Pakistan foreign minister Khawaja M Asif where he condemned the statement made by Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat Terming it a "shameful" act, Malviya, who is BJP's national information and technology in-charge, posted a screen grab of a tweet liked by the Congress leader. The tweet, liked by Tharoor, was from the foreign minister of Pakistan where he had condemned the statement by Indian Army Chief Bipin Rawat.Tharoor refuted Malviya's allegation and said that he uses Twitter's like feature as a bookmark to revisit them (the liked tweet) at a later time.To drive his point home, Tharoor even retweeted a Congress's activist tweet, where the activist had cited a reply made by Tharoor in 2013 offering his clarification on a similar issue."...not weird at all. I use "favourites" (Twitter's earlier equivalent of "Like") as a bookmark. Note lots of stuff, positive and negative and just plain interesting," Tharoor had said.On Sunday, Tharoor 'dealt' with Asif's tweet and called it "Preposterous and unbecoming of a Foreign Minister."The tweet in question was a reply from Asif to Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat's warning to Pakistan.Calling the warning "shameful" and "not befitting" the office of a military head of a country, Asif on Saturday had threatened that Rawat's comment amounts to "an invitation for a nuclear encounter".On Friday, General Rawat had warned to expose "Pakistan's nuclear bogey", if it actually comes to a war with the western neighbour."We will call their bluff. If given the task, we will not say we cannot cross the border because they have nuclear weapons," said the Army Chief.