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After Congress, BJP slams Tharoor's tweets

NDTV Correspondent, Thursday September 17, 2009, New Delhi

Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor seems to be getting embroiled in more controversy for his remarks on the micro blogging site Twitter about traveling economy class.

After Congress, now the BJP is condemning Tharoor for the remarks.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that said Tharoor doesn't know India well and has no respect for the people of India.

On Wednesday, Tharoor was asked on Twitter if the next time he travelled to Kerala, would it be on cattle class? In his reply to that question, Tharoor said, "Absolutely, in cattle class out of solidarity with all our holy cows!"

Interestingly, following his tweet about travelling 'cattle class', there are pictures of the Minister of State for External Affairs travelling to Kochi in economy class.

He took his trip in August before the government's austerity drive began. The pictures have been released on Twitter.

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Posted by sudhir rao on Sep 17, 2009

would mr tharoor have got into trouble if he had said, ''holy cow, do i have to travel by cattle class?''

Posted by Swaraj Padhi on Sep 17, 2009

I just don't get our great politicians in India. Is this really an issue? Why don't people take issue of spreading education, computers and internet more seriously. So that some day, everyone in India would know how to read and write and use internet on a PC! Come on, Seriously, is this really need of the hour trying to point out mistakes in a minister's tweets. Learn to move on!

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