Shashi Tharoor removed from the list of spokespersons of the AICC

Shashi Tharoor INC

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,” said party general secretary organisation Janardan Dwivedi in a press release.The Kerala unit of the Congress appears to have won its battle against Shashi Tharoor as the party high command, Monday, decided to remove the Thriuvanathapuram MP from the post of party spokesperson.The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) had wanted action against Tharoor for his praise of Narendra Modi and accepting the PM’s invite to him to participate in ‘Swachh Bharat’ campaign.

KPCC president VM Sudheeran said praises lavished on Modi repeatedly by Tharoor had hurt Congress and UDF workers who worked for his victory in the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency for a second time.
Tharoor has also reacted to his removal from the party post. Tharoor said as a loyal worker of the Congress I accept the Congress president’s decision.

Earlier, when the KPCC had taken up the matter with Congress high command, Tharoor had reacted sarcastically to the move saying this would mean the state leadership would finally read what he actually wrote instead of oral summaries.