New Delhi, Oct 31: With snide remarks between HRD minister of state Shashi Tharoor and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi going on a daily basis, BJP today described Tharoor as an ‘international love guru' and asked the PM to set up a Ministry of Love Affairs.
BJP spokesperson Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi made this wry remark while commenting on Tharoor's Twitter in which the latter had advised Modi to learn something about love.
“For an international love guru like him (Tharoor), a ministry of love affairs should be created,” Naqvi commented.
Modi, at an election rally in Himachal Pradesh two days ago, described Sunanda Pushkar as a “Rs.50 crore girlfriend” of Tharoor.
Tharoor then retorted, “My wife is worth a lot more than your imaginary 50 crores. She is priceless. But you need to be able to love someone to understand that.”
Tharoor told mediapersons today, he did not initially wanted to react to Modi's Rs 50-cr girlfriend remark. “It is not gentlemanly to talk about personal lives. My wife is not in public life. It's wrong to say she is worth Rs 50 cr or 50 paise. This nonsense has to stop. I felt I should defend my wife being talked to in a disparaging manner.”
New Human Resource Development Minister M.M. Pallam Raju Wednesday came out in defence of his ministerial colleague Shashi Tharoor, terming as unfair the BJP's taunt that the minister of state for HRD should be made minister of “love affairs”.
Raju was reacting to Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi's comment that a “love affairs ministry” should be created for Tharoor.
”It is very unfair to comment on a person who is as experienced as Shashi Tharoor. He has vast experience, he has worked in the UN (United Nations),” Raju said.
Former under-secretary general of the United Nations, Tharoor was appointed minister of state for human resource development in Sunday's reshuffle.
Raju added, “Ee shall use that experience in our ministry.”
Tharoor had to quit the government in 2010 over the IPL Kochi cricket controversy involving his then friend Sunanda Pushkar.
