New Delhi
\nCongress MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday clarified his controversial remarks that \u201cno good Hindu would want a temple built by destroying another place of worship\u201d.
\nMoments after the ruling BJP attacked him, Tharoor took to Twitter to assert that he was speaking for himself and not his party.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was asked for my personal opinion at a literary festival and gave it as such. I am not a spokesperson for my party and did not claim to be speaking for the Congress. I condemn the malicious distortion of my words by some media in the service of political masters. I said \u2018most Hindus would want a temple at what they believe to be Ram\u2019s birthplace\u2019,\u201d Tharoor tweeted.<\/p>\n
Leaders privately acknowledged that Tharoor\u2019s remarks were not in line with the Congress stand on the issue. \u201cWe have said we will accept the decision of the Supreme Court,\u201d \u0007Congress spokesperson RPN Singh said.<\/p>\n
The Congress saw in Tharoor\u2019s comments the potential to cause damage to the assiduously built recent soft Hindutva narrative. Worse, Tharoor\u2019s remarks came on a day when Congress chief Rahul Gandhi began his Madhya Pradesh tour after paying obeisance at a local temple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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