Will not accept ‘Veer Savarkar Award', says Shashi Tharoor amid row

Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday categorically said that he would not accept an award named after VD Savarkar, nor attend a related event, even as a senior party colleague wanted the Congress MP not to accept any honour named after the ideologue who, he claimed, "bowed before the British.

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Tharoor said he would not accept the "Veer Savarkar Award" and also would not attend the event where it would be presented in the absence of clarification about its nature or the organisation presenting it. Tharoor, the MP from Thiruvananthapuram, said, "It was irresponsible on the part of the organisers to announce my name without my having agreed to receive it." Earlier in the day, C