Shashi Tharoor & Controversies: made for each others ?

It is less then one year period, Mr. Shashi Tharoor took charge as Minister of State for External Affairs, but his name becomes synonymous with controversies, as he get out from one controversy he trap himself in another controversy. Below is the list of controversies his name drags in –

• In the month of September, 2009, Mr. S.M. Krishna and Mr. Shashi Tharoor asked by Mr. Pranab Mukherjhee Union Finance Minister, to vacate the five star suites they were living in, on daily basis, which they occupied soon after they inducted in the cabinet, due to their official residences were not ready to stay in, but both claimed that they were paying money from their pockets. This attracted the ire of many senior party’s leader, according to them, It is sending a wrong signal across the country, at a time when common man is combating a wide range of issues in the current year namely drought and price hike in daily use commodities, some of the members of the cabinet of Dr Manmohan Singh are enjoying luxurious life in the city’s five star hotels.
• Then U.P.A. Government led by Indian National Congress, started austerity move to combat expenses, and pass on directive to all the ministries to follow it strictly, cut down expenses’ and if it is possible travel in economy class, reduce size of delegations and so on, but Shashi Tharoor tweets on to his social networking account Tweets that economy class is a Cattle Class, this make furious, scores of people of country, then Prime Minster intervene and said it was just a joke by minister.
• Another controversy erupted on Gandhi Jayanti when Mr. Shashi Tharoor said people should be working rather than staying at home, rather than taking a holiday, thereby paying real homage to Mahatma Gandhi.
• Mr. Shashi Tharoor was in the news again for publicly criticising the new visa guidelines adopted by the Indian Government in the wake of the gaps exposed by the arrest of 26/11 terror suspects, David Headley and Tahawwur Rana. For this, he was criticised for breaking ranks with the official position of the Government. He later met External Affairs Minister, S.M. Krishna and explained his position on the issue. The rules were subsequently partly modified.
• In the month of January, 2010, Mr. Shashi Tharoor, who hit the media headlines once again for his reported remarks, this time on Jawaharlal Nehru, said sections of the media were doing a disservice to the country with inaccurate, dishonest, irresponsible and tendentious reporting. I am dismayed by the inaccurate and tendentious reporting of a statement attributed to me at a seminar organized by the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) on Jan 8, Tharoor told reporters at a hurriedly convened press conference at South Block. Tharoor, who was caught in yet another controversy when he remarked that Nehru’s foreign policy had taken India to a new level in the International arena, he agreed with criticism that Indian diplomacy at the time was often seen as a moralistic running commentary on other countries behaviour. Tharoor spoke after British MP, Lord Bhikhu Parekh, delivered a lecture at the ICWA, during which he said Nehru’s policies presented India in a light of moral self-righteousness.
• In the month of February 2010,Mr.Shashi Tharoor was part of delegation of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s three-day visit to Saudi Arabia, Union minister Shashi Tharoor, who had sparked a controversy by saying Saudi Arabia, can be an interlocutor between India and Pakistan, saying he had said nothing about mediation. "It is totally false. What Tharoor had said has nothing to do with mediation (between India and Pakistan). What prime minister had clarified and what Tharoor said there is no room for any controversy," AICC general secretary Janardhan Dwivedi told reporters.
• Now Mr. Shashi Tharoor is in fresh controversy, because of his association with IPL Kochi team, Rendezvous Sports World, but Mr. Tharoor clarify through media that he have nothing to do with IPL kochi franchisee, except he help them to make consortium, it was in the month of March when Rendezvous Sports World ,awarded Kochi team, but recently Mr. Lalit Modi(C.E.O. and Chairperson of IPL) ignited the close chapter by announcing on his twitter account that one of unknown stake holder in Kochi consortium is Sunanda Pushkar, who is as per media is friend of Mr. Shashi Tharoor, get free 700 million rupees stake in the consortium, then allegations and counter allegations are pouring in, on daily basis, from both sides and with every passing time, issue turns very ugly and dirty, as prime minister is out of country ,he while talking to media persons responded that after getting every detail he will in position to say anything, so it will be interesting to see in which direction this controversy leads both the parties.

In the span of few months, time spent by Mr. Shashi Tharoor as Cabinet Minister, time took him into controversies, which is not good for him and his party, because controversy can give nothing, other then negative publicity, whom party or public figures certainly want to eschew.