Bharat Jodo Yatra: Shashi Tharoor condemns Sambit Patra over minority appeasement remark | India News

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Bharat Jodo Yatra: Shashi Tharoor condemns Sambit Patra over minority appeasement remark | India News


New Delhi: Congress chief Shashi Tharoor condemned Sambit Patra for a jibe at Rahul Gandhi in his tweet on September 20. Tharoor tweeted, “Is there no low to which BJP spokesmen won’t sink?” This was in reply to Sambitra Patra’s tweet over an image of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi during which he was strolling within the Bharat Jodo Yatra together with a lady little one sporting a hijab. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s spokesperson, Sambit Patra, tweeted “when votes are accounted for on religious grounds, then it is called appeasement.”  

Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, Shashi Tharoor additional added in his tweet “She is a little child & too young to be part of any vote bank: please spare her from your small-mindedness! What Rahul Gandhi is doing is a simple decent gesture toward a kid. BJP, learn to look beyond people’s faith; we do.”

 





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