KPCC leadership urges Sonia Gandhi to take 'appropriate action' against Shashi Tharoor

NEW DELHI: The Kerala PCC leadership has asked the original mentor of Shashi Tharoor, party president Sonia Gandhi, to take “appropriate action” against him for his recent “pro-Modi stands,” including acceptance of the PM’s invitation to be a brand ambassador of the Swachh Bharat campaign.

Hours after the state Congress questioned his political loyalty, Tharoor tweeted mocking the PCC leadership.

The Gandhi-led AICC is caught between a state unit knowing for its assertiveness, and a party MP who seems to be daring the leadership to act against him. “Delighted to learn KPCC is preparing a ‘detailed report’.

That means they might finally actually read what I wrote instead of oral summaries,” was how Tharoor tweeted after the state PCC’s move.

Maintaining that the leadership is still in the process of going through the PCC letter, an AICC functionary said normally in such situation the central leadership, through its (AK Antony-led) disciplinary committee, serves a show-cause notice to the colleague in the dock. PCC has left it to the high command to decide on the action as Tharoor is an AICC member and an MP.

The state Congress leaders have been asking Tharoor to either pull out of Swachh Bharat programme or be removed as AICC spokesperson and be placed under suspension.