Congress leader and Lok Sabha member Shashi Tharoor has issued a clarification for a 2009 X post where he called the controversial American investor George Soros an 'old friend'.

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday clarified that he knew George Soros in a "social sense", after a 15-year-old post in which he called the US businessman his "old friend" resurfaced and was widely circulated.

Days after BJP cited an old tweet from Shashi Tharoor to allege the Congress leadership of having links to George Soros, Tharoor said he knew US investor George Soros as nothing more than a friend in a "social sense".