Shashi Tharoor. (EXPRESS PHOTO BY SUBHAM DUTTA/File) Shashi Tharoor. (EXPRESS PHOTO BY SUBHAM DUTTA/File)Taking a dig at Narendra Modi, politician-writer Shashi Tharoor has said that while the prime minister describes the country’s Constitution as “holy”, he also hails Hindutva icon Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay as a “hero”, and asserted that the two stands cannot go hand in hand. Tharoor said Upadhyay believed the Constitution “rests on the flawed premise that the nation is a territory of India and all the people on it”. “(You) cannot hail Upadhyay and the Constitution … at the same time,” he said.

Source: Indian Express January 28, 2018 13:20 UTC