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Congress leader Shashi Tharoor clarified that he is not exploring any political options while slamming Indian Express for misreporting
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor clarified that he is “not exploring other political options”. (File photo)
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday refuted reports which suggested that he was exploring other political options ahead of the Kerala Congress meeting.
Taking to X, Tharoor slammed The Indian Express for its “baseless and irresponsible” reporting and said that his remarks were misquoted by the publication.
Criticising The Indian Express, Tharoor said that it took “an innocuous statement (I said I had multiple “options to spend my time” in literary pursuits) and made a headline out of it in English that implied I was exploring other political options.”
1/5 A rather important thread that i hope will be read in our country’s journalism schools:The last few days have offered an object lesson in how the news is “made“. @IndianExpress wanted to draw attention to their new Malayalam podcast, so they did two somewhat shameless… pic.twitter.com/K1SAGdfMB3
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) February 27, 2025
“And as usual, the rest of the media reacted to the headline and the political class reacted to the media, and I was left dealing with the mess!” he said.
He added that the publication also ran a fake news story claiming that he had raised the issue of the absence of a leader in the Indian National Congress, Kerala which was even carried by other media outlets and channels.
Tharoor claimed that when he asked the media outlet to check the video of the podcast from where they had picked his quote, it was found that he had not made any such statements after which the paper also published a correction notice “after all the damage has been done”.
More details to follow.
- Location :
Kerala, India, India
