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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor faces criticism for sharing pic with women MPs, later Tweets apology

New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday (November 29) shared picture of himself with six women Members of Parliament and captioned it “Who says the Lok Sabha isn’t an attractive place to work?”. The picture came on the first day of the Parliament Winter Session. He tweeted, “”Who says the Lok Sabha isn’t an …

Shashi Tharoor

New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday (November 29) shared picture of himself with six women Members of Parliament and captioned it “Who says the Lok Sabha isn’t an attractive place to work?”. The picture came on the first day of the Parliament Winter Session.

He tweeted, “”Who says the Lok Sabha isn’t an attractive place to work? With six of my fellow MPs this morning: @supriya_sule @preneet_kaur @ThamizhachiTh @mimichakraborty @nusratchirps @JothimaniMP,” tweeted the Thiruvanathapuram MP.”

Soon after his post was share, Congress MP received negative comments after which he tweeted an apology.

Clarifying about the same, he wrote, “The whole selfie thing was done (at the women MPs’ initiative) in great good humour & it was they who asked me to tweet it in the same spirit. I am sorry some people are offended but i was happy to be roped in to this show of workplace camaraderie. That’s all this is.”

Here is how Twitterati reacted: