‘Distorting it’: Shashi Tharoor says remarks on Rahul Gandhi's ‘Chhatron ki goonj’ campaign not an attack on Congress
Shashi Tharoor said he was stressing that political parties must open their doors and create paths for the next generation to gain the power to shape politics.
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor clarified on Saturday that remarks about the lack of resonance between Congress's student outreach and the protests by the Cockroach Janata Party were not an attack on his own party or its leadership. He insisted that political parties must create pathways for the next generation to shape politics.
This clarification followed his earlier statement in Maharashtra where he noted that all opposition parties must be conscious of not providing a route into their parties for new voices. Tharoor highlighted that Rahul Gandhi's 'Chhatron ki goonj' programme had raised issues such as paper leaks before the protests by the CJP. He emphasized that the Congress needed to ask what it had failed to do, such as listening to the new voices and being in tune with the pulse of Gen Z. Tharoor also shared the full uncut video of his conversation with an IIMUN representative at the India's International Movement to Unite Nations (IIMUN) event in Mumbai on August 7, challenging those who were distorting his remarks.
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