Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has rejected union minister Kiren Rijiju's claim that he “agreed” to his party being anti-women. In an interview earlier, Rijiju had said that in a conversation after the Parliament session ended recently, Tharoor “in a way” accepted that Congress was anti-women.
Tharoor clearly rejected Rijiju's claims clarifying that at no point was any such thing said or implied by him. He also said that there were seven people in a photograph from the after the Parliament session who could attest that the Congress MP said no such thing.
Tharoor backs Congress on supporting women and heaped praise on how it stood for women's rights and women's reservation under Sonia Gandhi's presidentship. He even credited the Congress for initiating the bill, passing it in the Rajya Sabha when in power and supporting it when it was introduced in Lok Sabha in 2023.
