Shashi Tharoor office vandalized by BJP workers in Thiruvananthapuram

A group of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers vandalized Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s office in Kerala’s Trivandrum on Monday afternoon. The attack is reportedly orchestrated by the Bhartiya Yuva Morcha activists, to protest against Tharoor’s ‘Hindu Pakistan’ remark.

According to reports, police said that the workers reportedly poured black oil at the entrance of the office and put up a black flag and a board reading ‘Tharoor’s Pakistan office’ after destroying the original signboard. When the attack took place Tharoor was present at the office. The protesters fled the scene when the police reached. A case has been registered against unidentified persons.

Condemning the attack, Tharoor said, “People had come with their concerns but you scared them away from here. Is this what we want in our country? I am asking as a



citizen, not as an MP. This is not the Hinduism that I know of.”

Last week, Tharoor had stated that if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wins the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, it will create a condition leading to the formation of a ‘Hindu Pakistan’.

Addressing an event in Thiruvananthapuram, Tharoor had said, “If they (BJP) win a repeat in the Lok Sabha our democratic constitution as we understand it will not survive as they will have all the elements they need to tear apart the constitution of India and write a new one. That new one will be the one which will enshrine principles of Hindu Rashtra, that will remove equality for minorities, that’ll create a Hindu Pakistan.”

Tharoor’s statement drew flak from various political quarters, with the BJP demanding an apology from the Congress president Rahul Gandhi.