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| Shashi Tharoor Says PM Modi's Late |
| Shashi Tharoor Says PM Modi's Late Response To Scholar Suicide Baffling
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| INDIA
, 23-January-2016
12:40:25 PM |
| Former Union minister Shashi Tharoor today attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his "almost-a-week late" response on the suicide of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula and termed his silence "baffling".
"I find the PM's silence baffling. He has been hailed as a great communicator; he has been quick to take to microphone, the TV camera and Twitter to express his views on all sorts of things. But on all key issues facing our nation, there has been no communication from the PM," Mr Tharoor said.
"Even in this incident (Dalit scholar's suicide), the PM spoke almost after a week. (Congress vice president) Rahul Gandhi has been there days ago and the PM has only spoken yesterday," he said.
The Congress lawmaker was speaking on the sidelines of the ongoing Jaipur Literature Festival in Jaipur.
Mr Vemula, who committed suicide on Sunday night, was among five research scholars who were suspended by Hyderabad Central University (HCU) in August last year and also one of the accused in the case of
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