Tharoor says no ‘G’ or Ji Huzoori in G-23
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has said there is no “G” or “Ji Huzoori” in G-23. “It’s a name given by media…it was just those two-three friends who wrote a letter and whoever could come to Delhi to sign it during the lockdown. There is no ‘G’ in it nor Ji Huzoori,’ Tharoor told the media in Jaipur just before the Congress Working Committee meeting in Delhi.
Tharoor admitted it’s been two years and there is not much of a change. He said, “Some friends just wanted that party to become strong and active and gave their suggestions. This is what they wanted to convey to revive the party. It’s been two years but there is not much of a change…that’s why we are saying there should be some progress and change and there is no doubt that CWC will discuss all the issues.”
On poll debacle, Tharoor admitted it was a setback and many did not predict BJP will return with a big mandate, but in fact the vote share and seats of the Samajwadi Party have increased.
About a senior leader leaving the party, he said: “I don’t deny any political colleague a right to leave the party for whatever reason that fails to fulfil his or her expectations from that party. But a party is above all the vehicles for your conviction, for principles and values, and those are what you are defending.”
On PM Modi he said, “I think he is a man of tremendous vigour and dynamism. He has done some things that are very very impressive. He has won elections many of us assumed the party wouldn’t.”
On the negative side, Tharoor said Modi has unleashed some forces in society that are dividing our nation on communal and religious grounds, which to my mind is introducing toxins into our social ethos, which is unfortunate. “But I don’t want to personalise this, it’s not about an individual, but the ruling party and forces of the establishment and their ideology and ways of proceedings of which of course Modi is important but he is only an individual and things are happening in the name of his party and Parivar (family).”