Assure if omission of 80 mn in Ayodhya speech is inadvertent: Tharoor to PM

'A correction would be reassuring,' says Congress MP about PM congratulating '1.3 billion Indians'

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday said the Prime Minister congratulated 1.3 billion Indians during the Ram temple 'bhoomi pujan' but India's population is over 1.38 billion and the omission of 80 million people was worrying to many after the Citizenship Amendment Act and talk of National Register of Citizens.

He also said that if the "omission" was inadvertant, "a correction would be reassuring".

"PM Modi congratulated 130 crore Indians when he spoke at the RamMandir yesterday. But India's population is estimated at 1,38,00,04,385 in mid-2020, according to UN data," Tharoor said in a tweet.