Reducing Advani's long years of service to one episode unfair, says Tharoor; Congress distances itself from remarks

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said reducing veteran BJP leader L. K. Advani’s long years of service to one episode, however significant, is unfair, remarks his party distanced itself from.

The Congress said Tharoor speaks for himself and the fact that he continues to do so as a CWC member reflects the party’s democratic and liberal spirit.

The Thiruvananthapuram MP also said that when the totality of Jawaharlal Nehru’s career cannot be judged by the China setback and Indira Gandhi’s by the Emergency alone, he believes “we should extend the same courtesy to Advaniji”.

Congress’s media and publicity department head Pawan Khera said, “Like always, Dr Shashi Tharoor speaks for himself and the Indian National Congress outrightly dissociates itself from his most recent statement.”