Thiruvananthapuram: Senior Congress leader and MP from Thiruvananthapuram, Shashi Tharoor, stressed on Sunday that it is the responsibility of the Congress party to protect secularism. At the same time, Tharoor said that the party's crisis in the Hindi belt is not resolved in 'majority appeasement' or on the lines of 'coke lite', offering some kind of 'Hindutva Lite' will only end up with ‘Congress Zero’.
Tharoor alleged that the BJP and its allies claiming to be Hindu is no different from the loyalty of 'rogue supporters of British football' to their team. In an interview to the media before the launch of his book, The Hindu Way: An Introduction to Hinduism, Tharoor claimed that the propagation of Hindutva by the ruling people is not true Hinduism, but a great The vote has to be 'distorted', which he has turned into a narrow political weapon for purely political and electoral gains.
Tharoor has said that as a cautious optimist, he would like to say that there are a large number of Indians who are committed to counteracting the recent 'conservative trends' and will constantly ensure that 'distorted views on India' Do not succeed Tharoor further said, 'As a member of the Congress Party, I believe that the party has played an important role in defending secularism in India and it is its duty to lead it'.
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