NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday declined to accept the 'Veer Savarkar Award', calling the organisers "irresponsible" for announcing his name without him having agreed to receive it. Tharoor was named among the first winners of the newly instituted Veer Savarkar International Impact Award 2025, to be presented by Highrange Rural Development Society India. "I have come to know from media reports that I have been named a recipient of the "Veer Savarkar Award," which is to be presented today in Delhi. I only learned about this announcement yesterday in Kerala, where I had gone to vote in the local self-government elections. There in Thiruvananthapuram , responding to media queries, I had clarified that I was neither aware of, nor had accepted, such an award a

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