{"id":311310,"date":"2019-04-16T08:46:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T08:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311310"},"modified":"2019-04-16T08:46:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T08:46:24","slug":"touched-by-gesture-tweets-shashi-tharoor-after-nirmala-sitharaman-visits-him-in-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/touched-by-gesture-tweets-shashi-tharoor-after-nirmala-sitharaman-visits-him-in-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Touched by gesture’, tweets Shashi Tharoor after Nirmala Sitharaman visits him in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Congress candidate from Thiruvananthapuram, Shashi Tharoor, who is recovering at a hospital after suffering injuries while performing a ritual at a temple had an unexpected visit from Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTouched by the gesture of @nsitharaman, who dropped by today morning to visit me in the hospital, amid her hectic electioneering in Kerala. Civility is a rare virtue in Indian politics – great to see her practice it by example!\u201d Tharoor tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sitharaman had reached Kerala on Monday night and held a roadshow at Thiruvananthapuram along with BJP candidate Kummanam Rajashekaran.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tharoor was injured when the hook of a weighing scale came off and its iron panel hit his head during the “Thulabharam” ritual which he was performing at a temple.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Congress leader was rushed to the hospital where he received stitches.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tharoor is likely to be discharged from the hospital today and will resume\u00a0his campaign.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tharoor also thanked his Left Democratic Front rival C.Divakaran, for “expressing concern” over a phone call.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Very gracious of my LDF rival C.Divakaran to call this morning to express concern about my well-being. Said he had spoken to the Hospital Superintendent to assure himself I would be ok. “Don’t be demoralised”, Tharoor said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI’m not: I’m more determined than ever to see this through!” Tharoor added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kerala will vote in a single phase on April 23 in the seven-phase Lok Sabha polls. The counting will take place on May 23.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congress candidate from Thiruvananthapuram, Shashi Tharoor, who is recovering at a hospital after suffering injuries while performing a ritual at a temple had an unexpected visit from Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday. \u201cTouched by the gesture of @nsitharaman, who dropped by today morning to visit me in the hospital, amid her hectic electioneering in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2196,2072,2014],"tags":[4753,2053,2200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311310"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311312,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311310\/revisions\/311312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}