Expressing displeasure over Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's support to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat mission and for agreeing to be a brand ambassador for the campaign, Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president V M Sudheeran on Wednesday said that Tharoor was not supposed to make statements which hurt sentiments of party workers in the state.
"When he was nominated as a candidate, the KPCC whole heartedly welcomed it, and we worked very hard for him. It is because of the hard work of Congress workers and the Congress supporting mass that he has won by a big margin. He is not supposed to make such statements which hurt the sentiments, he should abide by the sentiment of the workers," Sudheeran said.
"Kerala is the only state which rejected the BJP and Shashi Tharoor fought BJP in a neck to neck fight. He was able to win because of the hard work of the party members. He has to realize that he is representing Indian National Congress," he added.
Sudheeran also informed that the KPCC has also sent a report to the Congress high command in this matter, but refused to divulge the contents of the report citing it as an internal matter of the party.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had invited nine persons, including Tharoor, to join the Swachh Bharat campaign, which was launched on October 2.
Tharoor had responded positively to the Prime Minister's invitation to join the campaign and had said that he was honoured to accept the invitation to join the 'Clean India campaign'.
