‘Tremendous vigour’: Tharoor stuns all, praises Modi

Jaipur: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Sunday praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling him a man of “tremendous vigour and dynamism” and gave credit to him for the BJP’s victory in the recently held Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, according to a media report “Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a man of tremendous vigour and dynamism and has done some things which are very impressive, especially politically.

We did not expect him to win with such great margins but he did,” said Tharoor while interacting with the media at the Jaipur Literature Festival.

The Congress leader, however, also criticised the prime minister saying, “He has unleashed such forces in the society that are dividing our nation on communal and religious grounds which according to me is introducing a toxin that is unfortunate.” Tharoor further said that he was surprised over the political analysts describing the UP poll results as a “foregone conclusion”.