Did Not Praise PM Modi, Says Tharoor

Breaking his silence over the notice issued to him by the Kerala unit of the Congress party to explain his remarks praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday said he had asked the State unit to show him ‘one sentence where he praised Mr Modi’.

- Sandeep Phukan

Speaking to The Hindu ahead of the release of his new book, The Hindu Way, Mr. Tharoor said he hoped the judiciary would do its job on the recent move by the Delhi Police to argue for ‘abetment to suicide or in alternative murder charges’ against him before a Delhi court in the death of his wife, Sunanda Pushkar.

“The only hope is that the judiciary will do its job with integrity. There is a long judicial tradition in the country which predates Independence and by and large in the past 70 years, with some exceptions, the judiciary has acquitted itself remarkably well,” Mr. Tharoor said.

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