Tharoor Troubles: Brit MP criticises Nehru as Tharoor agrees

Shashi Tharoor, the Indian Minister of State for External Affairs is under the Congress' scanner. Tharoor has said he agrees with criticism that the foreign policy of Jawaharlal Nehru, the country’s first Prime Minister and the Congress’ biggest icon, was a “moralistic running commentary”.

Tharoor criticised Nehru at a lecture by British MP Lord Bhikhu Parekh in New Delhi recently. Parekh, in his lecture, said Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi’s policies presented India in a light of “moral self-righteousness”. Tharoor backed his views.

Tharoor, a former international diplomat, created a huge controversy in September when he posted a message on Twitter that he would travel “cattle class out of solidarity with all our holy cows!”. The Congress was set to take action against him but the row ended when he apologized and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called his ‘Tweet’ a joke.

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