Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday spoke to former Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan's son and apologised for his tweet, which wrongly talked about the BJP veteran's death. Tharoor and few media organisations had on Thursday announced the demise of Mahajan (78). However, the Congress MP and others had later deleted the tweets after BJP leaders pointed out that she was fine.
On Friday, Tharoor said in a tweet, "Spoke to Sumitra Mahajan ji's son to convey my sincere apologies at last night's misinformation. He was most gracious & understanding. Delighted to hear she is very much better. Expressed my best wishes to her & her family."
After the Thursday night tweets by Tharoorand others about her demise, Mahajan was heard in an audio clip saying, "What should I do? These people carried the news without any confirmation. They should have at least confirmed with the district administration in Indore."
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"The Central government and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla should take note of this," the BJP veteran said in the clip.
"This became all-India news. I started getting calls from my relatives in Mumbai. My brother's daughter responded to Tharoor's tweet asking who gave him this fake news," she said.
The former Lok Sabha speaker's younger son Mandar also put out a video clip Thursday night, saying that his mother was perfectly fine and asked people not to believe the false news about her.
Mahajan, popularly known as 'Tai' (elder sister in Marathi) had represented the Indore Lok Sabha seat eight times in a row from 1989 to 2014.
On Friday, Tharoor said in a tweet, "Spoke to Sumitra Mahajan ji's son to convey my sincere apologies at last night's misinformation. He was most gracious & understanding. Delighted to hear she is very much better. Expressed my best wishes to her & her family."
After the Thursday night tweets by Tharoorand others about her demise, Mahajan was heard in an audio clip saying, "What should I do? These people carried the news without any confirmation. They should have at least confirmed with the district administration in Indore."
"The Central government and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla should take note of this," the BJP veteran said in the clip.
"This became all-India news. I started getting calls from my relatives in Mumbai. My brother's daughter responded to Tharoor's tweet asking who gave him this fake news," she said.
The former Lok Sabha speaker's younger son Mandar also put out a video clip Thursday night, saying that his mother was perfectly fine and asked people not to believe the false news about her.
Mahajan, popularly known as 'Tai' (elder sister in Marathi) had represented the Indore Lok Sabha seat eight times in a row from 1989 to 2014.
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 | M.L.GUPTA10 minutes ago Now the shouting TV channels must be taken to task as they are creating panic in the minds of the masses by their stupid reporting 24x7 without indicating the date/time of the first "breaking news". It is breaking news for them even after 13 days. They are maliciously focused on MP, Gujarat, UP. Abuse of the right to speech. They don't even understand the problem and the constraints of organisations. They portray moving ghastly pictures which the BBC, CNN, France TV have not shown about any patient in England, America or France. Even CNN, BBC etc are showing only pictures from India because their correspondents are all Indians with a narrow mind. For business such tricks are abominable. But in these funny times, people can do anything inhuman for a few bitcoins!!! |