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Tharoor complains about workload
Press Trust Of India / Sep 24, 2009, 00:53 IST

After creating a controversy by his ‘cattle class’ remark, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor has now complained about his workload while twitting about “ridiculously full” engagements.

“Have a ridiculously full schedule tomorrow with 17 meetings/engagements. You always pay a price when you come back from a trip,” he said on Tuesday night in the latest posting on the social networking site. Tharoor also talked about “mountains of pending files” as he was away from office for almost a week.

“Long day catching up with a week’s absence from Delhi. Mountains of pending files. Two journalists actually interviewed me on Africa!,” he wrote in another posting.

The latest postings came after his meetings with Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to give an explanation over his “cattle class” remark after which he was told to refrain from making such comments.

Tharoor had ruffled feathers in Congress when he twitted that he would be travelling in “cattle class out of solidarity with all our holy cows”, a comment which was seen as ridiculing the party's austerity measures.

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Posted by: Rajesh
He was just saying that he has lot of pending work, which is what happens when responsible people return to work after being away from office for a week.. Is that news? When someone says "I have hell lot to study" a day before exams, does it mean equating studying to hell? Why do you want to harass a minister who just want to be transparent? Is it what you call media ethics? Please leave Tharoor alone..
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