The IPL controversy may have cost Shashi Tharoor his job, but his appeal has not dimmed among foreign diplomats. Missing him are not just those from Africa but also the ones from Latin America.
In a message posted on Twitter last week, Tharoor writes: “Delightful lunch with 2 Latin American Ambassadors saying they were sorry to have lost me. LatinAm Group inviting the Tvm (Thiruvananthapuram) MP to address them.”
His popularity has a lot to do with the personal touch he brought to his job as junior foreign minister. He is said to be on Twitter with many ministers and ambassadors from African, Latin American and West Asian countries – the three critically important areas he was handling as minister of state for external affairs.
Had he been minister now, he would be visiting Mexico, Brazil and Panama this month!
rounak