Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor lambasted a section of the media over their "fanciful accounts" of his recent meeting with party president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, calling such reports "irresponsible journalism."
The Thiruvananthapuram MP had met the senior leadership of the party for redressal of his grievances. After the meeting, Tharoor said "all is good" and "we are all on the same page", signalling a rapprochement with the party ahead of the crucial Kerala assembly polls.
"We had a discussion with my two party leaders, the LoP and the Congress president. We had a very good, constructive, positive discussion. All is good and we are moving together on the same page. What more can I say," the Congress leader had reportedly said after the meeting.
"I see it in a positive way that one has an opportunity to discuss all issues very cordially and constructively in the spirit of camaraderie, and that is something that is very important in a party," he had said.
Following the meeting, there were a few media reports that said the Thiruvananthapuram MP met the Congress leadership over his "growing dissatisfaction" over the lack "lack of recognition and "political space" within the Congress.
Reacting to such reports, Tharoor, in a social media post, said he had been reading "fanciful accounts of who said what in my meeting" with Gandhi and Kharge.
"Let me stress that there were only three of us in the room, and none of us has spoken to the media in such detail," he said, adding that the only comments have been those made publicly and everything else is "sheer speculation."
"I deplore this kind of irresponsible journalism, which gives authentic reporting a bad name," he said.
