Telangana Congress chief’s unparliamentary comments on Shashi Tharoor – reported by a bit of the media — have incensed a number of the senior leaders of the party.
Manish Tiwari and Rajeev Arora went public with their objections today about the remarks of Revanth Reddy, who per media reports, called the previous Union minister “a donkey” and said he hoped for his expulsion from the party.
Tagging a report from the New Indian Express, Mr Tiwari tweeted, demanding that Revanth Reddy withdraw his remarks.
“Dear Mr Revanth Anumula, Dr Shashi Tharoor could be a valued colleague of yours & mine it’d are better if you’d have spoken to him if you had some misgivings a couple of purported statement of his. Grace & Propriety demands you withdraw your words,” read the tweet from Manish Tiwari.
Senior party leader Rajiv Arora condemned the remarks of Mr Reddy.
“I condemn derogatory remarks by Shri Revanth Reddy PCC president Telangana for AIPC president and senior congress MP Shashi Tharoor as reported by a bit of press. He should issue a press release withdrawing his remarks,” he tweeted, tagging J Geeta Reddy, the regional coordinator of the party.
According to reports, Revanth Reddy was extremely critical of Mr Tharoor when he praised rival Telangana Rashtra Samithi’s IT Minister KT Rama Rao during his recent visit to Hyderabad.
Mr Reddy apparently told reporters that both leaders belonged to the identical category and fluency in English failed to mean one may be a knowledgeable person. He also said Mr Tharoor was proving a liability for the party.
Two years ago, Mr Tharoor was targeted by leaders of the Kerala Congress after he backed party colleague Jairam Ramesh’s statement that “demonising” Prime Minister Narendra Modi all the time was “not an efficient strategy”.
PM Modi, Mr Tharoor had said, should be praised “whenever he says or does the correct thing”.
“Those who want to praise Modi should join the BJP. No Congress leader should think that he can become a minister within the BJP regime very soon by praising Modi…” party leader K Muraleedharan had said.
Last year, Kodikkunnil Suresh, the Chief Whip of the Congress within the Lok Sabha, called Mr Tharoor a “guest artist” but later retracted the remark.
“Shashi Tharoor is in no way an officer. He came to the Congress party as a guest artist. he’s still continuing within the party sort of a guest artist,” Mr Suresh, also a Congress MP, had said after Mr Tharoor became one in every of the signatories of the explosive, critical letter sent to Sonia Gandhi.
