Without making a reference, Tharoor tweeted: “Two points, everything I tweet is my personal opinion. I have no other and those who stand for nothing fall in love with anything (Alexander Hamilton). “
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said on Thursday that “Everything I tweet is my personal opinion”, a day after his Twitter post on Trinamool Congressman Mahua Moitra’s Goddess Kali remark on the goddess Kali was called a “personal opinion” by her party.
Without making any reference, Tharoor tweeted: “Two points, everything I tweet is my personal opinion. I have no other and those who stand for nothing fall in love with anything (Alexander Hamilton).
On Tuesday, Moitra sparked controversy with her remarks that she had every right, as an “individual, to imagine Goddess Kali as a meat-eating, liquor-accepting goddess” because every person has the right to worship God and Goddess in his own way. .
While the BJP harshly criticized Moitra and his Trinamool Congress party distanced itself from the comment and condemned it, Tharoor said he was “taken aback by the attack on Moitra” and urged everyone to ” relax and let individuals practice religion in private”.
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In a series of tweets on Wednesday, Tharoor said, “I’m no stranger to maliciously fabricated controversies, but I’m still surprised by the attack on MahuaMoitra for saying what every Hindu knows, that our forms of worship vary widely across across the country. What the devotees offer as a bhog (offering) says more about them than about the goddess”.
“We have reached a stage where no one can say anything publicly about any aspect of religion without someone pretending to be offended. It is obvious that MahuaMoitra was not trying to offend anyone. I urge everyone to relax and to leave religion to individuals to practice in private,” he said.
Asked about Tharoor’s message, the head of the congressional communications department, Pawan Khera, said the party’s position is that the comments are Tharoor’s “personal opinion”.
Responding to a post criticizing him for his remarks and accusing him of ‘selective politics’, Tharoor also ticked off the person saying ‘If you can’t tell the difference between a Hindu lady insulting the Prophet of Islam and a lady Hindu describing ways in which devotion is expressed to a Hindu goddess, so I’m afraid you’re irredeemable”.
Khera said the party’s position is that these comments are Tharoor’s “personal opinion”.
Responding to a post criticizing him for his remarks and accusing him of ‘selective politics’, Tharoor also ticked off the person saying ‘if you can’t tell the difference between a Hindu lady insulting the prophet of Islam and a lady Hindu describing ways in which devotion is expressed to a Hindu goddess, so I’m afraid you’re irredeemable”.
(With agency entries)
