A leader of Congress made a statement and said that the “question does not arise.”
On Wednesday, Shashi Tharoor, a leader in Congress, said that he would not be getting the “Veer Savarkar Award” and that he didn’t even know this was happening. The Congress MP said in a note shared on X, “The people in charge were being careless when they said my name without asking me first.”
Media reports have told me that I am getting the “Veer Savarkar Award” today in Delhi. I went to Kerala to vote in the local self-government polls and only found out about this news there yesterday. There in Thiruvananthapuram, when the reporters asked about it, I made it clear that I did not know about this award or agree to receive it, and it was wrong for the promoters to put my name out there like that. Still, some news organisations in Delhi today keep asking the same question. “That’s why I’m putting out this statement to make things clear,” he wrote.
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He added that there was no question of his going to the event today or taking the prize because there was no information about what the award was for, who was giving it, or anything else that might give him more context.
Tharoor’s party, Congress, has been harsh in its criticism of Veer Savarkar, claiming that the freedom fighter had apologised to the British in order to get a shorter prison sentence.
Congress Takes a Shot at Tharoor for Going to the Putin Event
Tharoor has been attacked by his party colleagues over the last few months for not following the party line on a number of issues, such as Operation Sindoor and a recent event with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Rashtrapati Bhawan. The Congress party on Friday said that Opposition Leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi were not invited to the dinner for Russian President Vladimir Putin. The party also criticised its own MP, Tharoor, for taking the invitation.
Pawan Khera, head of Congress’s media and press department, said that this government is known to break all the rules. When Khera was asked about the party’s MP Tharoor being called to the dinner and saying yes to the offer, he said, “Ask Mr. Tharoor.” Everyone at the party, if our leaders aren’t asked and we are, should think about what’s right. “Politics has been played in deciding whether or not to invite people, which is itself questionable, as is the accepting of such an invite,” Khera said.
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