New Delhi : Congress MP Shashi Tharoor was absent from a meeting of the party’s Lok Sabha MPs chaired by Rahul Gandhi on Friday, raising questions within the party about his recurring absence from key deliberations. The Thiruvananthapuram MP, who has faced scrutiny over his comments perceived as favourable to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, missed the meeting once again, continuing a pattern of non-attendance at Congress’s Lok Sabha gatherings in recent weeks.
Tharoor was in Kolkata last night for an event hosted by the Prabha Khaitan Foundation, indicating he may not have returned to Delhi in time for the meeting. This comes days after Tharoor clarified that he had not deliberately skipped the Congress strategic group meeting on November 30. Tharoor had also missed the Congress discussion on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) issue earlier, citing ill health.
His office had then explained that the MP was travelling with his 90-year-old mother on a later flight from Kerala and could not reach Delhi in time. However, some Congress leaders remain uneasy about the growing list of absences, particularly after Tharoor was the only Congress representative invited to the state banquet hosted by the President for visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin. The invitation had sparked internal murmurs, with Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera remarking, “Everyone’s conscience has a voice.
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