Minister Shashi Tharoor is known to be an eloquent and fluent speaker. But for once that may have worked against him as he tried to clear the air in the Lok Sabha over the Kochi IPL controversy.
Tharoor had made an elaborate defence of his case. However, the opposition was in no mood to let the controversy die down quickly and wanted to raise the issue in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
A parliament wag says that the opposition deliberately stalled Tharoor’s speech, lest the articulate minister hog the limelight by convincingly repudiating allegations against him.
Tharoor was left to read his statement to mediapersons outside parliament.
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