Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday said he would not accept an award named after Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar, nor attend a related event in Delhi, in the absence of clarifications about its nature or the organisation presenting it.

Tharoor said he learnt about receiving the award while he was in Kerala on Tuesday.

In a post on X on Wednesday, the MP for Thiruvananthapuram, said, \"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.\"

Tharoor said that \"it was irresponsible on the part of the organisers to announce my name without my having agreed to receive it\".

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