Tharoor tweets under attack from Congress

New Delhi

Sept. 17: The minister of state for external affairs, Mr Shashi Tharoor, is under the Congress scanner. Questions are being raised in party circles about the young minister’s “sense of responsibility.”
The question that is being asked, as one source put it, is “how a minister in a high-profile and sensitive ministry can Twitter all the time?”
Some Congress leaders are also apprehensive that the BJP and other Opposition parties might exploit the minister’s “attitude” to gain political mileage. Some of Mr Tharoor’s alleged misadventures are now being openly discussed in party circles, which range from his “sitting on the chair reserved for the Prime Minister in the Lok Sabha” to calling the Indo-Pak joint statement at the Sharm el-Sheikh NAM summit “not a legal document,” as well as his rejecting accommodation at New Delhi’s Kerala Bhavan as the state guesthouse “did not have a gym and did not offer privacy.”
A senior Congress leader said, “It has been indicated to him that being a Union minister he has to be responsible enough.” Mr Tharoor, he added, “should also remember that he is a minister in India and not in any other part of the world.”
The Congress is worried that the BJP might try to gain advantage.