"Hope Wisdom Prevails": Shashi Tharoor After Sonia Gandhi's Message
NDTV
The admonition was apparently meant for colleagues in the Congress in Kerala, who had flagged the issue to Sonia Gandhi at the party's parliamentary office in Delhi. Mr Tharoor, along with KV Thomas and Mani Shankar Aiyar, were invited to the CPM seminar.
Shashi Tharoor, ordered to stay away from a CPM seminar next month by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, took a step back today. But his statement making the announcement had a sting in the tail. pic.twitter.com/AtRvwmMdxt
Recounting that he had earlier turned down a similar CPM invite after a discussion with Mrs Gandhi -- "a suitable decision... taken without media controversy" -- he added that a similar procedure "could have been easily followed this time".
"I regret that some preferred the unseemly public airing of internal differences, thereby creating a needless controversy in a matter in which AICC's view was binding. I hope wisdom will prevail in future," he added.
The admonition was apparently meant for colleagues in the Congress in Kerala, who had flagged the issue to Sonia Gandhi at the party's parliamentary office in Delhi. Mr Tharoor, along with KV Thomas and Mani Shankar Aiyar, were invited to the CPM seminar.
