Why has Tharoor ‘the politician’ failed his party by praising the Kerala government? |
It is acceptable for a politician to praise an opponent at an individual level. It is also acceptable for political opponents to pay a visit to each other during family functions. However, it is considered a sin if one politician praises the rival political party or government. Especially when ‘that party’ has been in power in the state for the last ten years and ‘your party’ is trying all the tricks in the trade to unseat it from power. Yes, prominent Congress leader and four-time Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor has ‘politically’ blundered when he wrote in an article that “Kerala is beginning to stand out as a model of economic innovation and sustainable growth.”
Without going into the facts of the matter, in political lingo, it simply means that Tharoor acknowledges the ‘good work’ that the Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) government is doing in Kerala. No wonder the scholarly parliamentarian has come under fire from his colleagues in the state and his approach has been severely criticised by the Congress’s mouthpiece, Veekshanam. “When the anti-government sentiment is being inflamed, there should not........