Thiruvananthapuram: Senior Congress candidate Shashi Tharoor who sustained head injuries during a temple visit on Monday, was touched by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s gesture of visiting him in hospital.
A day after he was injured during a religious ritual at a temple in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram, he tweeted “Touched by the gesture of @nsitharaman, who dropped by today morning to visit me in the hospital, amid her hectic electioneering in Kerala. Civility is a rare virtue in Indian politics – great to see her practice it by example!”
Tharoor, a two-time lawmaker from Thiruvananthapuram, was hurt when a heavy iron hook fell on him while he was being weighed on a giant scale as part of the “thulabharam” ritual, in which a person sits on the scale against a mound of offerings like fruit and sweets, equal to the devotee’s body weight. He participated in the ritual as a part of Vishu celebrations, which is Kerala’s traditional New Year, before kick-starting his election campaign from there.
The Congress leader was admitted to the Government Medical College in Thiruvananthapuram; he received eight stitches and also tweeted about the incident.
