Letter to BS: It is time Congress MP Shashi Tharoor is shown the door

One wonders what compels the Congress leadership to continue to put up with such political lightweights causing serious damage to the party

While one would wish one had the eloquence, the punch, panache and flair of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, he should be wary of making gaffes as he has consistently been doing, putting his party on the back foot with corresponding political benefit accruing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP. His latest dig at a chaiwala becoming prime minister and attributing such a rise to our first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru is one amongst many of his highly indiscreet and inelegant statements. Another one was the “scorpion sitting on a shivling... ”comment. For quite some time, the expelled Congressman