NB: Accepting an award in the name of a prime suspect in the Mahatma Gandhi murder case is but a logical step forward from playing to-ey to-ey with brazen Savarkarites and Godse-ites. Not all patriots are scoundrels; but all scoundrels are definitely patriots. Wit is no substitute for wisdom, Shashi. Your performance is becoming cringeworthy. The people who hurled vulgar insults at you a decade ago have – out of sheer stupidity – thrown you a lifeline. Try and be wise for a change. Leave the wrestling pit. It’s not too late. DS
Shashi Tharoor is electorally irrelevant to the BJP. He brings nothing to it except offering himself as an instrument to embarrass the Congress. His individual stands are rationalised as loyalty to the nation over party discipline, but in reality, represent no more than personal ambition. The only other politician who comes close to him in overweening ambition is his intellectual polar opposite, Navjot Singh Sidhu. In both, personal ambition overshadows party discipline.
If Tharoor masks his nebulous ambition (there was a narrative of his being Kerala chief minister once) using intellectual subterfuge; Sidhu plays his cards openly, — bluntly saying that he will return to the party only if he is offered the top job as Punjab’s chief minister. Most recently, Sidhu’s wife made a statement that her husband will return to politics if the Congress declares him its chief ministerial face in Punjab and that “Rs 500 crore is needed to become Punjab CM.” Both Tharoor’s and Sidhu’s outrageous behaviour is explained by their political ambition being frustrated….
https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/refusing-savarkar-award-exposes-shashi-tharoors-dilemma-3828706
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