Thiruvananthapuram | Union Minister and BJP leader Nirmala Sitharam today paid a visit to injured Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in a hospital after the Congress leader got injured during a religious ritual at a temple in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram.
Appreciating Nirmala Sitharam for her gesture, Shashi Tharoor wrote,” Touched by the gesture of Nirmala Sitharaman who dropped by today morning to visit me in the hospital, amid her hectic electioneering in Kerala. Civility is a rare virtue in Indian politics – great to see her practice it by example!”
Touched by the gesture of @nsitharaman, who dropped by today morning to visit me in the hospital, amid her hectic electioneering in Kerala. Civility is a rare virtue in Indian politics – great to see her practice it by example! pic.twitter.com/XqbLf1iCR5
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) April 16, 2019
Congress leader and Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday suffered head injuries while performing ‘thulabharam’ ritual at a temple here. Tharoor sustained injuries on his head, which required six stitches. He also suffered a minor leg injury after the hook of the weighing scale came off and hit his head, they added.
‘Thulabharam’ is a Hindu ritual in which a person is weighed against a commodity such as flowers, grains, fruits and similar articles in temples and the equal value or quantity is offered as donation. Monday being the Malayalam new year day (‘Vishu’), Tharoor performed the ritual at a Devi temple here in the morning before embarking on his poll campaign.
While he was sitting on one of the pans of the weighing scale, the hook came off and fell on his head, the party sources added. He was taken to Trivandrum Medical College hospital for detailed examination, the sources said.
Television channels showed the former union minister getting into a car with a bandaged head and waving to onlookers wearing a blood-stained kurta.
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