Kodikkunnil Suresh reportedly referred to as the media and retracted his feedback on Shashi Tharoor
Thiruvananthapuram:
Shashi Tharoor, who was among the many 23 Congress leaders who wrote to Sonia Gandhi calling for sweeping adjustments within the get together and a “full-time, effective and active leadership”, has been derided as a “guest artist” by a high chief of the Congress in Kerala.
But Kodikkunnil Suresh, the Chief Whip of the Congress in Kerala, has now retracted the remarks he made within the morning.
“Shashi Tharoor is certainly not a politician. He came to the Congress party as a guest artist. He is still continuing in the party like a guest artist,” Mr Suresh, additionally a Congress MP, had mentioned.
In the broadly reported remarks, the previous union minister additionally mentioned: “Tharoor may be a global citizen, but he should not think that he can take any decision or say anything according to his will. Ultimately, he should follow the party.”
Mr Tharoor had earlier mentioned it was everybody’s obligation to work collectively within the curiosity of the Congress, as soon as the get together chief has mentioned that the matter is “behind us”.
“I’ve been silent for 4 days on recent events in @INCIndia because once the Congress President says the issue is behind us, it is the duty of all of us to work together constructively in the interests of the Party,” the Congress’s Thiruvananthapuram MP had tweeted on Thursday. He added: “I urge all my colleagues to uphold this principle and end the debate.”
Mr Suresh referred to as the media and retracted his feedback on Mr Tharoor, saying he had missed his tweet. “I have withdrawn my statement. I had not seen Shashi Tharoor’s last night statement talking about working for the unity in the party. With that, everything is over,” he advised NDTV.
The letter-writers have been dealing with criticism and calls for for disciplinary motion in opposition to them ever because the contents of the explosive letter, seen to be a critique of the Gandhi household’s management fashion, emerged on the weekend. At a high get together assembly, they have been roundly attacked by leaders for “betraying” the Congress and since then, they’ve been largely remoted.
Mr Tharoor has reportedly additionally provoked the anger of his colleagues in Kerala by overtly supporting the central authorities’s transfer to lease out Thiruvananthapuram International Airport for 50 years to Adani Enterprises.