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Created by : Deepak Kubal, Media Coresspondent, Media House  | 04 19 2010 13:10:46 +0000
Industry : PoliticsFunctional Area : Controversies & Scandals(Others)
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"We want Shashi Tharoor back!" screamed a virtual campaign on the popular social networking website Facebook.

Calling the former minister of state for external affairs "the face of Indian politics that the young generation wants to see", many netizens, especially youngsters, said that India had lost one of its most capable ministers after his resignation on Sunday.


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Shashi Tharoor who was a former UN diplomat, and an author and the same guy who spoke about India's soft power in TED India conference, everyone was becoming a fan of this politician, until when he started his tweets and the aftermath which followed and now the IPL.

So, has congress done the right thing by asking Tharoor to resign over the IPL controversy????

 
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Yes, congress did the right thing by asking Mr. Shashi Tharoor to resign. Being a minister he should know what are his duties & liabilities. He should have used his political image in a better & meaningful way. He should be aware that if he is getting himself involved in any controversies then it will also affect the image of the party also.

Thus, I don't think there is any wrong in the decision of the party.


By Deepak Kubal, Media Coresspondent, Media House  04 19 2010 13:17:35 +0000
 
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Tharoor is educated, intelligent, genuine and not a hypocrite. So he was the only scapegoat among the holy cows.


By Subhasis Chanda, Public Health Manager, WBPHAS  04 19 2010 14:09:41 +0000
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Yes, Deepak,

Tharoor is far, far above all corrupt typical Congress politicians, as he has great academic & professional (as a UN Diplomat) career and when it comes to venality too he appears to be all above in channelising his ill-gotten wealth through unconventional routs like, routing it through his lady-friend and again not as cash but as a ‘sweat equity’;

His Honesty cannot be challenged as he honestly repeating himself to be innocent and that he is above board, while the published records state that he has grossly misused his officail office in favour of his lady-friend getting ‘sweat-equity’ of Rs. 70/- Crores (Rank greedy to manipulate to get 25% as ‘sweat equity’, whereas the legally permissible limit for ‘sweat-equity’ is only 15%);

His integretity cannot be questioned as he stayed – for six months – in a 5-Start Hotel, spending Rs. 40,000/- a day at the expense of the tax-payer, while all the while he has an official quarters allotted to him in his capacity as an M.P.;

Dragging notorious Lalus, Mulayams, Capt. Amarinders, Sharad Pawars and a hundred others into this discussion is not going to exonerate your great Tharoor from the crimes he has committed in such short period of less than One Year.

Nor repeated telling a lie doesn’t make it any truth.


By M. Prabhakar Rao, Green Consultant: Green Buildings, LEED Certifications, GreenGuard, Energy Star, GreenCo Certifications, Energy Audits  | 04 21 2010 11:11:01 +0000
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Hello Deepak, Congress party did good thing to save their reputation. Further the minister should not interfere in other department and to work without em brassing their colleagues and leadership. As our Prime Minister informed the ups and down Mr. Tharoor should learn from this incident and to correct this in future.

K Rajagopalan. 


By Rajagopalan Krishnamoorthy, B.A student  | 04 20 2010 18:24:42 +0000
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Since Tharoor did'nt understand the Opposition mind and Ruling paty's habits. Nowadays Parliament is not a place good and decent politicians. They want only Yes Minister, and scape-goats.And Tharoor is victims of the two and big sharks will escape by bringing Political hands to mediate the present IPL scandell.
By Sampathkumar , Manager - Accounts & Finance, MNC Firm  | 04 20 2010 12:13:56 +0000
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Yes, yes, Mr. Subhasis Chanda,

Only scape-goats grossly misuse their office to get Rs. 70/- Crores worth (25%) 'sweat equity' to his lady friend and get sacked, for this crime.

Only scape-goats stay in Rs. 40,000/- per day Five-Star Hotel, for Six months, while the Government and the Nation as whole has been suffering from the adverse effects of the recession.

Only scape-goats travel in First Class as well as insult the middle-class that travels in the 'Economy Class' by calling it 'Cattle Class'.

 

 

 


By M. Prabhakar Rao, Green Consultant: Green Buildings, LEED Certifications, GreenGuard, Energy Star, GreenCo Certifications, Energy Audits  | 04 20 2010 05:30:51 +0000
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Vengeance or Vendetta?

"A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket."  The latter can be applied to Mr.Tharor, coz he is the only external minister so far, in the Indian Governance who has a “Style” in his communication. Whether that “style: has been interpreted correctly or incorrectly is another matter. As far as his role as a Minister is considered, infact he has committed a perjury.

But so what when the Indian masses are used to seeing this kind of act every now and then it is nothing new. If Media becomes a little more active and starts to look in between the lines, then I guess there will be many a names coming out in light, where “Men of Honour” would be asked to give resignations from their current posts.


By Shiuli Mukherji, Head Strategy Plan- , Region SEA  | 04 20 2010 05:09:11 +0000
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Congress should have sacked him long before,

01)  When he stayed in Five Star Hotel, costing the Govt. Rs. 40,000/- per Day, when the GoI is struggling to manage it finances very badly and was on a austere measures,

02)  When he tried to over-smart the PM & the MoEA by suggesting that Saudi Arabia should act as an Interlocutor between the Pakistan and India, while the sated policy of the GoI is to strictly disallow any third party intervention in the Indo-Pak relations.

03)  When he insulted the middle & lower middle-class people who flyl in the economy class by calling it 'Cattle-Class',

04)  When he discussed the sensitive issues of the Govt. through twitter, and

05) many more such blunders which doesn't go well with the office of a Central Minister.

Anyway, it is never too late that the Govt. and Congress sacked him now as he grossly misused his office and ensured that his lady-friend got 25% (valued at Rs. 70/- Crores) as a sweat equity, while her marketing management track has not proved at all, anywhere in the past, despite what he wanted us to believe.

Good riddance, Shashi Tahroor. 

 


By M. Prabhakar Rao, Green Consultant: Green Buildings, LEED Certifications, GreenGuard, Energy Star, GreenCo Certifications, Energy Audits  | 04 20 2010 03:39:10 +0000
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people like shashi are required for a better INDIA.,


By dinesh kumar sharma, ZONAL SALES MANAGER - NORTH, WOCKHARDT LTD  | 04 19 2010 15:49:54 +0000
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We want Sashi Tharoor back :

- to UNO

- to USA ot to Dubai.

He is too good for the people of India. Indians are not rich but have strong common sense. They dont expect from a leader to have high Degree, costly dress, English in American accent, polite but confusing approach or  like that.

They want a leader who knows India and her people, their expectatations ( very small : chapati / bread, cloth and shelter ), who speaks at least one Indian language, and above all truthful.


By ASOKE KUSARI, Domestic Private Banking-Executive/Manager, A large leading PSU Bank - India  | 04 20 2010 18:27:00 +0000
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Whoa whoa..the so called honest and holy politicians of congress.It is an open secret that all politicians have one or two of their lady loves be it Lalu,Mulayam,Capt.Amrinder,so called youth icon-Rahul gandhi or anyone but it is all under the cover but Tharoor had the gumptions to take his relationship with Sunanda in public.

Atleast Tharoor ranks far far above all corrupt typical Congress politicians,one cant doubt his honesty and integrity.HE WILL BOUNCE BACK WITH A BANG.In all this episode IF SHARAD POWAR COMES OPENLY THEN ONLY THIS WHOLE DIRT WILL BE WIPED OUT,BUT SHARAD IS AT ITS APEX IN CRICKET CORRUPTION.


By DEEPAK SHARMA, International IT and ITes sales,Business Acquisition, Account Management, Relationship Management, Safaltek Software Pvt. Ltd.  | 04 20 2010 15:12:23 +0000
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Yes, Style in corruption too, taking Rs. 70/- Crores (25%) sweat equity in the name of his lady-friend.


By M. Prabhakar Rao, Green Consultant: Green Buildings, LEED Certifications, GreenGuard, Energy Star, GreenCo Certifications, Energy Audits  | 04 20 2010 12:24:44 +0000
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Shashi Tharoor is unable to understand or adjust to Indian Culture. There is a huge difference between India & US. Once elected to power, he should have realised the mindset of people in India especially from Rural sector. India doesn't need a controversial minister but a person willing to help or support the citizens. Instead of tweeting and working like a IT professional, he should have used the technology to interact and resolved common mans issues. Rather he chose to dirty his hands by inviting Sunanda and deliver high performance at IPL


By Anil Narayan, Staffing Lead HP  | 04 19 2010 17:41:44 +0000
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He is not fit to be a Minister....


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