In May 2023, Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram posted a congratulatory message on social media platform X, about two physically challenged students who cleared the civil services exams. He wrote, “Congratulations to two physically challenged students, Kajal Raju from Kasargode (L, in sari) & Sherin Shahana of Wayanad (R, in wheelchair), both part of HyderAli Shihab Thangal Academy, Perinthalmanna, under the KREA project of Najib Kantapuram MLA, who made it to the civil services through the UPSC exams!”
Delighted to report that after my interventions and discussions with @PMOIndia minister @DrJitendraSingh, Sherin Shahana has been allotted the Indian Railway Management Service cadre. It's a victory for compassion and for the rights of the differently-abled. I congratulate my… https://t.co/3qyZZijpV1
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) September 5, 2023
In July 2023, however, he said that Sherin Shahana had not been allocated any specific service because of limited quotas for people in her situation. He said, “Met with Sherin Shahana, the disabled Kerala woman from Wayanad who had made national news when she cracked the UPSC exams. She has been devastated not to be allocated a specific service because of limited quotas for people in her situation in the various services. I have taken up the matter with Dr Jitendra Singh who has promised to be helpful.”
Met with Sherin Shahana, the disabled Kerala woman from Wayanad who had made national news when she cracked the UPSC exams. She has been devastated not to be allocated a specific service because of limited quotas for people in her situation in the various services. I have taken… pic.twitter.com/iLea5Bl3Jd
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) July 30, 2023
Sherin Shahana, a 27-year-old from Wayanad who was a victim of domestic abuse and a paralysed body had been confined to a wheelchair from the age of 21 after a fall from the roof terrace. She cracked the civil services exams this year and secured the 913th rank. However, she was not allotted a service allegedly due to limited quotas for the physically challenged.
When the matter was taken up with Shashi Tharoor, he reached out to Dr Jitendra Singh, Union Minister in-charge of Department of Personnel & Traning. In just a matter of a month, Shashi Tharoor revealed that Sherin Shahana was allotted the Indian Railway Management Service cadre. In a rare display of political decency and respect, he congratulated Dr Jitendra Singh for his magnanimity. He wrote on X, “Delighted to report that after my interventions and discussions with PMOIndia minister Dr Jitendra Singh, Sherin Shahana has been allotted the Indian Railway Management Service cadre. It’s a victory for compassion and for the rights of the differently-abled. I congratulate my friend the Minister for the magnanimity and sagaciousness with which he handled this complicated problem and found a humane resolution. #GoodNews”
Delighted to report that after my interventions and discussions with @PMOIndia minister @DrJitendraSingh, Sherin Shahana has been allotted the Indian Railway Management Service cadre. It's a victory for compassion and for the rights of the differently-abled. I congratulate my… https://t.co/3qyZZijpV1
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) September 5, 2023
On this issue, netizens tweeted that on the ground, Shashi Tharoor is a very approachable MP and listens to his constituents with a keen ear.
My friend from Thiruvananthapuram tells me Tharoor is a very good MP, very approachable and takes up the problems of his constituents quite seriously. He has also picked up Malayalam reasonably well.
It is good to see a person from a very elite background willing to put in the… https://t.co/kLqnnKFnl6— Sai (@Saiarav) September 5, 2023
The Lone Sane Voice In Congress Party
While Congress MP and former party chief Rahul Gandhi makes it a point always to badmouth India whenever he goes abroad, Shashi Tharoor is that one sane voice in the entire party that has always spoken in support of the country.
He has spoken against the British on their very soil every single lambasting the colonial rule. He has voiced his objections to the museums housing Indian artifacts and refers to them as “stolen” every single time he speaks.
Shashi Tharoor turns into a different beast while talking about the British 😂 pic.twitter.com/VrTRYmn4rh
— Zucker Doctor (@DoctorLFC) October 18, 2022
He has also pointed out the fact that British children do not study their true history.
‘You don’t teach your children in schools a line of colonial history’ Shashi Tharoor destroys British🇬🇧 media over Britain’s colonial history
Real wages in India🇮🇳 declined by 23.3% during the 350 years of British rule
Under British rule, India's share of the world economy… pic.twitter.com/L8udUCP4Hj
— Going Underground (@GUnderground_TV) July 13, 2023
Shashi Tharoor on the British misrule of India on #QandA pic.twitter.com/uldIpP9F36
— David McCann (@dmcbfs) August 7, 2022
On Churchill, The Bengal Famine & The Loot
While the British are quick to dismiss any allegations about their former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Shashi Tharoor takes on them by doling out facts about the tragic Bengal famine and the reasons for it.
CONgress MP Shashi Tharoor explains the genocidal regime run by Brits during their occupation of India. Yet his party leader Rahul Gandhi goes to the same British Government asking them to intervene in India's democracy.
Why hasn't the CONgress party called out RaGa's treason? pic.twitter.com/6tZhI2IToo
— Arun Pudur (@arunpudur) March 15, 2023
"The British came to one of the richest countries in the world..and over 200 years of exploitation reduced it to a poster child for Third World poverty…"
Indian politician Shashi Tharoor wonders how India might have been without British colonialism… pic.twitter.com/r3iIYTr0dS
— MintPress News (@MintPressNews) August 16, 2023
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