Nueva Delhi: Shashi Tharoor minimized the controversy around Rift’s reports with the Congress party after his recent podcast where he was summoned by saying that he had “other options” if the party did not require its services.
“Everyone listened to the podcast, what was the controversy? … I have not yet understood the controversy … now that they have heard the whole podcast, can they tell me what your question is? I am happy to answer. … is it A podcast, a 45 -minute conversation about life and happiness activities, nothing much about nothing political controversy“, said.
He also confirmed that he would attend the meeting that will take place on Friday and that he would also have the main brass leaders Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge.
“A party meeting has been called on Friday, I will be there with everyone else,” he said.
Podcast, selfie and a cryptic publication: the events that created the ‘controversy’
The controversy around Tharoor and his crack reported with the party exploded after a series of events that led the experts who connected points of the dissatisfaction of the veteran leader with his current position in the great old party.
The veteran leader of Congress on Saturday published an appointment of Thomas Gray, “where ignorance is happiness, it is crazy to be wise,” as the idea of the day.
After this, in an interview with a Malayalam podcast, informed on Sunday, he warned that if Congress did not expand its appeal, it would remain in opposition for a third consecutive mandate in Kerala. He also commented that many party workers felt a Leadership vacuum Inside the Kerala Congress. Citing his elections as a deputy of Thiruvananthapuram, he added that if the party no longer required its services, it had “other options”, including tours to speak and write books.
The rumors intensified when he shared a selfie with the minister of the Union, Piyush Goyal, appreciating on Tuesday the rebirth of the “long -standing TLC negotiations” with Great Britain.