{"id":249438,"date":"2022-10-20T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/?p=249438"},"modified":"2022-10-20T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T17:22:00","slug":"one-face-before-us-another-before-media-congress-slams-shashi-tharoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2022\/10\/20\/one-face-before-us-another-before-media-congress-slams-shashi-tharoor\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;One Face Before Us, Another Before Media&#8221;: Congress Slams Shashi Tharoor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\"><span itemprop=\"video\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><meta itemprop=\"headline\" content=\"&quot;One Face Before Us, Another Before Media&quot;: Congress Slams Shashi Tharoor\"\/><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"&quot;One Face Before Us, Another Before Media&quot;: Congress Slams Shashi Tharoor\"\/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"&quot;One Face Before Us, Another Before Media&quot;: Congress Slams Shashi Tharoor\"\/><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-10\/jlhesd88_shashi-tharoor_625x300_15_October_22.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-10-20T17:42:52+05:30\"\/><meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=661111&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\"\/><meta itemprop=\"ContentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/ndtvod.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com\/23372\/ndtv\/20102022_n_ShashiTharoor_4pm_123021_96324_320.mp4\"\/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"T2M26S\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"videoembed\" class=\"videembedload\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-10\/jlhesd88_shashi-tharoor_625x300_15_October_22.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=661111&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:100%; height:403px; padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left:0px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">Shashi Tharoor later regretted that the letter was leaked and said &#8220;let&#8217;s move on&#8221;. (File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">New Delhi: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>After declaring a new party president, the Congress today called Shashi Tharoor two-faced in a sharp pushback against his allegations of &#8220;extremely serious irregularities&#8221; in the internal polls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am sorry to say that you had one face before me which communicated that you&#8217;re satisfied with all our answers and different face in the media which made all these allegations against us,&#8221; Madhusudan Mistry, who was election in-charge, said after Shashi Tharoor&#8217;s team alleged &#8220;damning evidence&#8221; of violations.<\/p>\n<p>Mallikarjun Kharge defeated Shashi Tharoor by a landslide in the polls held on Monday to become the first non-Gandhi Congress president in 24 years.<\/p>\n<p>As the votes were counted yesterday, Mr Tharoor&#8217;s election agent Salman Soz wrote to Mr Mistry flagging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/congress-president-election-team-shashi-tharoor-alleges-irregularities-writes-to-partys-poll-body-3444520\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;disturbing facts&#8221; in the election process<\/a> in Uttar Pradesh and demanding that votes in the state be cancelled. Mr Soz later said after assurances of a &#8220;fair inquiry&#8221;, the team had agreed that the vote-count must go on.<\/p>\n<p>Though Mr Tharoor regretted that a &#8220;strictly internal letter&#8221; was leaked and said, &#8220;let&#8217;s move on&#8221;, the Congress was blunt and unforgiving in its response.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We accommodated your request&#8230; and despite that you went to the media alleging that the Central Election Authority was conspiring against you,&#8221; Mr Mistry wrote in his point-by-point rebuttal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You tried creating a mountain out of a mole(hill) by creating an impression that the entire exercise was unfair to your candidate,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mistry called Team Tharoor&#8217;s charge of voting malpractice &#8220;imaginary and baseless&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The acrimonious counter shows Mr Tharoor may not get an easy out after publicly fretting about an &#8220;uneven playing field&#8221; and a &#8220;difference in treatment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Few doubted Mr Kharge&#8217;s victory since he was widely seen to be the &#8220;Gandhis approved&#8221; candidate even though the Congress insisted that the election was free and fair.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tharoor is among the few &#8220;G-23&#8221; leaders still in the party two years after writing to Sonia Gandhi demanding long overdue reforms in the party and a clear and visible leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, several senior leaders have quit the party, including Ghulam Nabi Azad and Kapil Sibal.<\/p>\n<p>After its serial election defeats, the Congress held its first presidential polls in over 20 years &#8211; without a Gandhi in the mix &#8211; to prove that it is ready for internal reforms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/congress-slams-shashi-tharoor-over-irregularities-in-polls-allegation-3448754\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Shashi Tharoor later regretted that the letter was leaked and said &#8220;let&#8217;s move on&#8221;. (File) New Delhi: After declaring a new party president, the Congress today called Shashi Tharoor two-faced in a sharp pushback against his allegations of &#8220;extremely serious irregularities&#8221; in the internal polls. &#8220;I am sorry to say that you had one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[437,5201,3324],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}