{"id":300433,"date":"2018-07-16T12:59:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T12:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300433"},"modified":"2018-07-16T12:59:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T12:59:03","slug":"congress-leader-tharoor-accuses-bjp-of-vandalizing-his-office-in-thiruvananthapuram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-leader-tharoor-accuses-bjp-of-vandalizing-his-office-in-thiruvananthapuram\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress leader Tharoor accuses BJP of vandalizing his office in Thiruvananthapuram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-300019 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/S-tharoor-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/S-tharoor-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/S-tharoor-479x420.jpg 479w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/S-tharoor.jpg 625w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Shashi Tharoor, Congress leader and Thiruvananthapuram MP, has accused Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) Yuva Morcha activists of vandalising his constituency office on July 16 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Today @YUVAMORCHABJP vandals attacked my constituency office in Thiruvananthapuram. They poured black engine oil on signs, doors, walls &amp; gate, drove away innocent citizens waiting with their petitions, put up offensive banners &amp; shouted slogans asking me to go to Pakistan,&#8221; Tharoor&#8217;s tweet reads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The incident took place in wake of Tharoor&#8217;s latest statement alleging that if the BJP comes to power again after the 2019 Lok Sabha election, then the country will become a &#8216;Hindu Pakistan&#8217;. Victory in 2019, he said, would give Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s party &#8220;all the elements they need to tear apart the Constitution of India and write a new one&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Activists demanded an apology from Tharoor over his comments on BJP that has sparked a big political controversy. The attackers also demanded Tharoor to leave the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Following the attack, Tharoor said, &#8220;People had come with their concerns but you scared them away from here. Is this what we want in our country? I am asking as a citizen, not as an MP. This is not the Hinduism that I know of.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;After today&#8217;s alleged act of violence by the BJP, even Hindus will distance themselves from the &#8216;Sanghi goondas'&#8221;, added Tharoor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">S. Suresh Thiruvananthapuram district BJP President has said that the incident was a protest against a wrong statement. \u201cThis protest took place as Tharoor is the Lok Sabha member from here and hence this is nothing but a natural protest because of his erroneous statement,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">State Congress President M.M. Hassan and Leader of opposition Ramesh Chennithala have strongly condemned the attack on Tharoor&#8217;s office.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shashi Tharoor, Congress leader and Thiruvananthapuram MP, has accused Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) Yuva Morcha activists of vandalising his constituency office on July 16 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.\u00a0 &#8220;Today @YUVAMORCHABJP vandals attacked my constituency office in Thiruvananthapuram. They poured black engine oil on signs, doors, walls &amp; gate, drove away innocent citizens waiting with their petitions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2196,2072,2014],"tags":[2763,453,236,466,2053,2200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300434,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300433\/revisions\/300434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}