Thiruvananthapuram: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor dropped a second bomb on Twitter, hours after making a controversial claim about hearing Malayalam among Taliban militants in Afghanistan in a viral video.
On Tuesday morning, Tharoor had triggered a debate when he quote-tweeted a video on the Taliban's Kabul entry and said that he could hear multiple Malayalam speakers.
With a majority of the Twitterati that interacted with his tweet taking offense to his claim, Tharoor returned with another statement about Kerala's daughters being taken away to Afghanistan by 'misguided husbands'.
"I have been approached by Kerala mothers whose daughters are stuck in Afghanistan after having been taken there by their misguided husbands. I arranged a meeting w/ EAM SushmaSwaraj ji for a constituent to plead her case. Obviously, it’s as an MP that I’m aware of the situation,” Tharoor tweeted on Tuesday evening.
His reaction came in response to a Twitter user, who said that the initial tweet was “highly problematic".
"Making statements like this especially when the Right Wing ecosystem is going on a hate campaign against Kerala regarding people joining jihadist groups. And you being an MP from Kerala's capital should be knowing better," Twitter user Korah Abraham had said.
Earlier in the day, Tharoor had shared a tweet that carried a video of a group of gun-wielding Taliban militants.
“It sounds as if there are at least two Malayali Taliban here — one who says “samsarikkatte” around the 8-second mark & another who understands him!” Tharoor had quote-tweeted the August 15 post.
