Shashi Tharoor apologises for his flawed tweet on Sumitra Mahajan

Congress chief Shashi Tharoor on Friday spoke to former Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan’s son and apologised for his tweet, which wrongly talked in regards to the BJP veteran’s dying.
Tharoor and few media organisations had on Thursday introduced the demise of Mahajan (78). However, the Congress MP and others had later deleted the tweets after BJP leaders identified that she was nice.
On Friday, Tharoor stated in a tweet, “Spoke to Sumitra Mahajan ji’s son to convey my sincere apologies at last night’s misinformation. He was most gracious & understanding. Delighted to hear she is very much better. Expressed my best wishes to her & her family.”
After the Thursday evening tweets by Tharoorand others about her demise, Mahajan was heard in an audio clip saying, “What should I do? These people carried the news without any confirmation. They should have at least confirmed with the district administration in Indore.”
“The Central government and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla should take note of this,” the BJP veteran stated within the clip.
“This became all-India news. I started getting calls from my relatives in Mumbai. My brother’s daughter responded to Tharoor’s tweet asking who gave him this fake news,” she stated.

The former Lok Sabha speaker’s youthful son Mandar additionally put out a video clip Thursday evening, saying that his mom was completely nice and requested folks to not imagine the false information about her.
Mahajan, popularly often known as ‘Tai’ (elder sister in Marathi) had represented the Indore Lok Sabha seat eight instances in a row from 1989 to 2014.