In an indirect message to Shashi Tharoor and other party leaders, Congress President Rahul Gandhi said that he will not hesitate to act against those giving the wrong statement.

The Congress leader made the comment while addressing party leaders art at a meeting of the newly-constituted Congress Working Committee (CWC).

The remark comes amid the ongoing row over Tharoor's Hindu-Pakistan and Hindu-Taliban remark.

"I am fighting bigger fights. Everyone has the right to speak in party forum but if a party leader gives a wrong statement and weakens this fight. I will not hesitate to take an action," said Rahul Gandhi.

Earlier, Tharoor said, "If they (BJP) win a repeat in the Lok Sabha our democratic constitution as we understand it will not survive as they will have all the elements they need to tear apart the constitution of India & write a new one. That new one (Constitution) will be the one which will enshrine principles of Hindu Rashtra, that'll remove equality for minorities, that will create a Hindu Pakistan and that isn't what Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru, Sardar Patel, Maulana Azad and great heroes of freedom struggle fought for."

However, after his office was vandalised by the BJP Yuva Morcha (BJYM) activists in Thiruvananthapuram, Tharoor said: "They are asking me to go to Pakistan. Who has given them the right to decide that I am not a Hindu like them and so I cannot live in India? The BJP's talk of 'Hindu Rashtra' is really dangerous and will destroy this nation. Has Talibanisation started in Hinduism?"

Meanwhile, the extended CWC authorised Congress president Rahul Gandhi to forge an alliance with like-minded parties for the 2019 Lok Sabha election to take on the BJP.

The party also authorised Gandhi to constitute a committee to work out alliances with various national and regional parties to form a grand national alliance.

During the meeting that held in Parliament Annexe Building, Rahul, in his opening remark, reminded the party supporters 'the role of Congress as the voice of India as also its responsibility of present and future.'

He further described the CWC as "institution comprising experience and energy, as a bridge between the past, present and the future."