Shashi Tharoor rubbishes Republic TV expose, bashes Arnab Goswami

Republic had aired 19 audio tapes to question Tharoor's action after wife Sundanda Pushkar's death

Former Union minister and diplomat Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday rubbished as “misrepresentations and outright lies” the allegations made by Arnab Goswami’s Republic TV to question Tharoor’s actions after his wife Sunanda Pushkar’s death in 2014. The previous night, the newly launched news channel had aired 19 audio tapes in its purported exposé of the Congress parliamentarian’s actions.

Tharoor said in a Facebook post that the accusations were “exasperating farrago of distortions, misrepresentations and outright lies”, and called the anchor “an unprincipled showman masquerading as a journalist”.

A Congress member of Parliament from Thiruvananthapuram, Tharoor lamented that “someone would exploit