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From tweets urging him not to be cowed down and apologizing for the crap
he had to endure, the twitteratiessentially the new generationhas rallied
behind the Minister of State for External Affairs, Shashi Tharoor after his
cattle class remarks on Twitter kicked up a controversy.
The support has been consistent from the time Congress spokesperson Jayanthi
Natarajan termed his remark as unacceptable and absolutely insensitive. In an
effort to put a lid on the issue, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has dismissed
the remark as a joke.
The minister has over 1,90,000 followers on Twitter, overtaking many other
celebrities who are on the social networking web tool.
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| Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State for External
Affairs, GoI |
Affected by the controversy surrounding him, Tharoor also took out time to
clarify his stand to tweeters who have fully supported him on this issue. Some
of the ministers latest tweets include: In politics, alas, you cant assume
your good deeds will speak for you. You can be sure your errors will be spoken
of, he tweeted in reply to Ankita Shekhar. Alas, no time to write. The
twenty-minutes-a-day spent on twitter messaging is all I can manage by way of
personal writing, he tweeted in reply to Devarsh Patel.
He is also excited about the ATP Champions Tour to be held in
Thiruvananthapuram. News that Bjorn Borg, Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, and
Guillermo Villas might compete in Thiruvananthapuram in the ATP Champions Tour!
he tweeted recently.
Tharoor raised the hackles of party members when in reply to a query on
whether he would travel cattle class, had tweeted that he would travel cattle
class out of solidarity with all our holy cows.
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