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The Congress on Monday removed Shashi
Tharoor as the party's spokesperson after the
party's Kerala unit reprimanded him for
praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"Congress President Sonia Gandhi has
accepted the recommendation of the AICC
disciplinary committee to remove Shashi
Tharoor from the list of spokespersons of the
AICC with immediate effect.
"The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee had
submitted a complaint in this regard to the
disciplinary committee," Congress General
Secretary (Organisation) Janardan Dwivedi
said in a press release.
Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee had
prepared a report against Tharoor, which was
referred to AICC's disciplinary action
committee a few days ago, reported PTI.
The report of the Kerala unit had held that
Tharoor's adulatory statements about Modi had
hurt Congress workers in Kerala, who had
worked sincerely and tirelessly for his victory
from Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat.
KPCC sends complaint against Tharoor to high
command
Tharoor had earlier reacted sarcastically to the
Kerala unit's move, saying this would mean
the state leadership would finally read what he
actually wrote instead of oral summaries.
The complaint by the Kerala Congress
Committee had come at a time when Tharoor
had accepted the invite by the Prime Minister
to be a brand ambassador of "Swachch
Bharat" mission of the NDA government.
Tharoor had also gone to the US during the
time the Prime Minister was in that country
and had appeared on various television
channels. Party sources say that nobody was
assigned from Congress to the US during
Modi's visit and speak on the party's behalf.
Tharoor has not been briefing media at the
AICC from June 4 after his piece in Huffington
Post praising Modi kicked up a big row in
Congress.
The Congress leader had said that it would be
"churlish" if his party did not take note of
Modi's efforts to sound gracious and
accommodative and reinvent himself from a
"hate figure into an avatar of modernity and
progress".
Congress had snubbed him immediately,
describing it as his "personal view". Since then
Tharoor did not brief the media from AICC
podium. .
The view in the AICC is that Tharoor should
have kept in mind that he holds a responsible
position in the party and party interests should
come first.
The three-member disciplinary action
committee of AICC, which looked into the
complaint of the Kerala Congress, comprised
Motilal Vora, AK Antony and Sushilkumar
Shinde.
Taking strong exception to his repeated praise
of Modi and his initiatives like "Swachh
Bharat" mission, Congress in Kerala had
sought appropriate action by the high
command against Tharoor.
Incidentally, Tharoor's press conference at the
AICC were not uploaded on the party website
beyond May 7 this year while the site is
updated on AICC briefings till October 10.
A senior party functionary said that despite the
fact that Tharoor's books in past had been
"very critical" of late Indira Gandhi and Rajiv
Gandhi, the party made him a minister even
when he was the first time MP.
Shashi Tharoor removed as Congress spokesperson
Tharoor as the party's spokesperson after the
party's Kerala unit reprimanded him for
praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"Congress President Sonia Gandhi has
accepted the recommendation of the AICC
disciplinary committee to remove Shashi
Tharoor from the list of spokespersons of the
AICC with immediate effect.
"The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee had
submitted a complaint in this regard to the
disciplinary committee," Congress General
Secretary (Organisation) Janardan Dwivedi
said in a press release.
Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee had
prepared a report against Tharoor, which was
referred to AICC's disciplinary action
committee a few days ago, reported PTI.
The report of the Kerala unit had held that
Tharoor's adulatory statements about Modi had
hurt Congress workers in Kerala, who had
worked sincerely and tirelessly for his victory
from Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat.
KPCC sends complaint against Tharoor to high
command
Tharoor had earlier reacted sarcastically to the
Kerala unit's move, saying this would mean
the state leadership would finally read what he
actually wrote instead of oral summaries.
The complaint by the Kerala Congress
Committee had come at a time when Tharoor
had accepted the invite by the Prime Minister
to be a brand ambassador of "Swachch
Bharat" mission of the NDA government.
Tharoor had also gone to the US during the
time the Prime Minister was in that country
and had appeared on various television
channels. Party sources say that nobody was
assigned from Congress to the US during
Modi's visit and speak on the party's behalf.
Tharoor has not been briefing media at the
AICC from June 4 after his piece in Huffington
Post praising Modi kicked up a big row in
Congress.
The Congress leader had said that it would be
"churlish" if his party did not take note of
Modi's efforts to sound gracious and
accommodative and reinvent himself from a
"hate figure into an avatar of modernity and
progress".
Congress had snubbed him immediately,
describing it as his "personal view". Since then
Tharoor did not brief the media from AICC
podium. .
The view in the AICC is that Tharoor should
have kept in mind that he holds a responsible
position in the party and party interests should
come first.
The three-member disciplinary action
committee of AICC, which looked into the
complaint of the Kerala Congress, comprised
Motilal Vora, AK Antony and Sushilkumar
Shinde.
Taking strong exception to his repeated praise
of Modi and his initiatives like "Swachh
Bharat" mission, Congress in Kerala had
sought appropriate action by the high
command against Tharoor.
Incidentally, Tharoor's press conference at the
AICC were not uploaded on the party website
beyond May 7 this year while the site is
updated on AICC briefings till October 10.
A senior party functionary said that despite the
fact that Tharoor's books in past had been
"very critical" of late Indira Gandhi and Rajiv
Gandhi, the party made him a minister even
when he was the first time MP.
Shashi Tharoor removed as Congress spokesperson
