‘What’s the controversy about?’: Shashi Tharoor amid rift reports with Congress | India News

NEW DELHI: Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday downplayed controversy surrounding the reports of rift with the Congress get together after his current podcast the place he was cited saying that he had “other options” if the get together didn’t require his companies.
” You all heard the podcast, what was the controversy about?…I still haven’t understood the controversy…now that you have heard the whole podcast, can you tell me what your question is, I am happy to respond…it is a podcast, a 45-minute conversation about life and pursuits of Happiness, nothing there much about any political controversy,” he mentioned.

He additional confirmed that he would attend the assembly which is about to happen on Friday and it could even have high brass leaders Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge.
“A meeting of party has been called on Friday, I will be there with everyone else,” he mentioned.

Podcast, selfie and a cryptic submit: The occasions that created the ‘controversy’

The controversy round Tharoor and his reported rift with the get together erupted following a collection of occasions that led to the consultants connecting dots of the veteran chief’s dissatisfaction with his present place in the grand outdated get together.
The veteran Congress chief on Saturday posted a quote by Thomas Gray– “Where ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise” — as the considered the day.

Following this, in an interview with a Malayalam podcast, reported on Sunday, he warned that if the Congress didn’t develop its attraction, it could stay in opposition for a 3rd consecutive time period in Kerala. He additionally remarked that many get together staff felt a management vacuum inside Kerala’s Congress. Citing his four-time election as MP from Thiruvananthapuram, he added that if the get together not required his companies, he had “other options,” together with talking excursions and writing books.
The rumours intensified when he shared a selfie with Union minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday appreciating the revival of “long-stalled FTA negotiations” with Britain.