‘Tremendous vigour’: Shashi Tharoor credits Modi for UP polls win

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling him ‘a man of tremendous vigour and dynamism’ and gave credit to him for the Bharatiya Janata Party’s victory in the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.”Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a man of tremendous vigour and dynamism and has done some things which are very impressive, especially politically. We did not expect him to win with such great margins but he did,” said Tharoor while interacting with the media at the Jaipur Literature Festival.

Tharoor also said that the Indian voter has always been capable of throwing up surprises and the Bharatiya Janata Party will also get to know about it one day After the words of praise for the Prime minister, the Congress leader, however, also criticised him and said, “He has unleashed such forces in the society that are dividing our nation on communal and religious grounds which according to me is introducing a toxin that is unfortunate.

“His remarks came in the backdrop of the party’s debacle and drubbing in the just-concluded assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Punjab and Manipur. The Congress could have done much better in Uttarakhand, and in Goa, “we had very good chances of being the single largest party”, Tharoor said. “But mind you in both the states the number of voters are relatively small, and that perhaps contributed,” the MP from Thiruvananthapuram said.