Congress heavyweights, including the party's national president Mallikarjun Kharge, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, state chief DK Shivakumar, LoP Siddaramaiah, Shashi Tharoor former BJP leader and deputy chief minister Jagadish Shettar, among others, fe
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday hailed the Centre's announcement of a Vande Bharat train for Kerala and said that he is looking forward to attending the flagging off of the same by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Hitting out at Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai-led BJP government in Karnataka, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said people of the poll-bound southern state have endured misgovernance in the last four years.
Amid the stalemate in Parliament due to repeated adjournments, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor slammed the BJP-led Centre over the logjam and said that the objective behind the Tiranga Yatra is to send out the message that let's protect and safeguard our democracy.
"We need not be so thin-skinned, I think it's very important that as govt we take something in stride. If we react to every comment, we are doing ourselves a disservice. I will strongly urge EAM Jaishankar to cool a little bit," said Tharoor.
Sharing an instance of him writing to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, seeking a GST exemption for certain life-saving drugs required by a cancer patient, Tharoor thanked the former for granting his request.
Sharing a clip from various newspapers on Twitter, highlighting Rahul Gandhi's disqualification as a Member of Lok Sabha (MP), Tharoor said, "They tried to silence a voice. Now every corner of the world hears the voice of India."
After Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was disqualified from being a Lok Sabha MP, party leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday took a dig at the order and said that he was stunned by the "rapidity" of the action and termed it as "politics with the gloves off".
"The real problem is not inside the High Commission but on the premises outside, which is the responsibility of the local authorities, in this case, the British authorities, to protect," Shashi Tharoor said.
After the Lok Sabha met for the day, opposition members came near the Speaker's podium over their demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the Hindenburg-Adani row. The BJP members raised demand for apology from Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remarks in United Kingdom<