Junior external affairs minister Shashi Tharoor is believed to have said he couldn’t live in a place which didn’t have a nice gym. BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy who was responsible for the new-look Constitution Club gymnasium pointed out that Tharoor needs to know the government had opened a state-of-art gym in the heart of the capital for people like him.
As for the privacy that a five star hotel afforded Tharoor, Rudy said, “For this, Tharoor may have to quit this job since public men in India do not have this luxury.”
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