‘Distorting it’: Shashi Tharoor says remarks on Rahul Gandhi's ‘Chhatron ki goonj’ campaign not an attack on Congress
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has clarified that his recent comments regarding the party's student outreach were not an attack on leadership, but a critique of the party's failure to connect with Gen Z. Tharoor accused the media of distorting his remarks to create a false narrative of internal conflict.
Why it matters
The incident highlights the sensitivity of internal party dynamics and the role of media interpretation in shaping political discourse within India's opposition.
Following his remarks that Congress's student outreach did not resonate with the students as much as the Cockroach party's paper leak protests did, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Saturday sought to explain his stand, decrying that the media was interpreting it as "an attack on my own party or its leadership".Tharoor insisted that he was stressing that political parties must open their doors and create pathways for the next generation to gain the power to shape politics.Also read: ‘No one has seen us in same room’: Rahul Gandhi's cheeky AMA response to ‘are you Batman’ questionThis comes after Tharoor said during an event in Maharashtra that all opposition parties have to be conscious of the fact that they didn't "provide a route into our parties for the kinds of people who are at Jantar Mantar last month".
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