Last week only he was scolded by the Congress chief over the leak of his views against party’s stalling tactics in Parliament in the media.
Diplomat-turned-politician Shashi Tharoor (59) on Saturday landed in fresh trouble within his Congress party, after a two-page e-mail addressed to party president Sonia Gandhi surfaced, where in he had expressed dismay over the leadership not appreciating his “sincerity”.
Last week only he was scolded by the Congress chief over the leak of his views against party’s stalling tactics in Parliament in the media. Sonia, who generally keeps her cool, literally blasted Tharoor at the meeting of party MPs. She even refused to buy Tharoor argument that he was not behind leaking meeting details to media. “You always do this, it’s become a habit with you,” an angry Sonia said. Interestingly, the very next day Tharoor came in for handsome praise from none other than Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for his speech at Oxford University, sparking speculations that something's cooking between Kerala MP and the BJP.
The e-mail that surfaced on Saturday shows angry Tharoor expressing dismay at media reports that he had cut an “isolated figure” at the meeting and “everybody disagreed with him”, when he had suggested that the party should not stall Parliament. “I was dismayed, indeed distressed, by our exchange at the morning meeting,” Tharoor said in his e-mail to Sonia. He also responded to the criticism that he had leaked meeting proceedings. “Why on earth would I have spoken to the media to undermine myself and my standing within the party?”
However, he refused to comment on his supposed letter to Sonia through an email. “I will neither confirm nor deny because even responding to such a question legitimises your line of inquiry,” he said in Thiruvananthapuram. Tharoor complained that it is he who is the victim of stories being planted in the media. Tharoor alleged that these rumours were "maliciously" aimed at him and maintained it as an attempt by some insiders to prevent frank airing of views by him within the party forums in future.
“I have served the party's interests with sincerity... while often feeling that this has neither been seen nor appreciated. The events of the last 24 hours sadly suggest that this remained the case,” Tharoor said.
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