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Tharoor walks out of live TV talk show
Former UN Undersecretary General Shashi Tharoor, the Congress candidate for the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat, took everyone by surprise when he walked out of a live TV talk show on Friday night.
- IANS
- Published: 22:46 April 4, 2009
Thiruvananthapuram: Former UN Undersecretary General Shashi Tharoor, the Congress candidate for the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat, took everyone by surprise when he walked out of a live TV talk show on Friday night.
P.G. Suresh Kumar, the anchor of the show organised by Asianet TV channel, described the incident as "unfortunate".
He said: "When he walked out, the Left Democratic Front candidate P. Ramachandran Nair was responding to questions on MP Paniyan Ravindran. In fact Tharoor had answered all the questions that were put to him by me and also from the audience."
"We were taken aback when he walked out. We rushed to him and asked him to stay as the programme would get over in 20 minutes, but he refused," said Kumar.
Besides Tharoor and Nair, the others on the show were Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) candidate and former MP M. Neelalohithadasan Nadar and the state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president P.K. Krishna Das.
However, Tharoor's chief campaign coordinator G.S. Babu, a local Congress activist who was witness to the event, had a different story.
"I was present at the spot. Tharoor answered all the questions put to him and at times the crowd was becoming a bit unruly. He immediately asked the policemen on duty to pacify and control the crowd. The policemen in turn politely asked him to leave to defuse the situation. And since he wanted things to cool down, he left," said Babu.
Kumar said that Tharoor joined the hour-long programme 10 minutes late, at 10.40pm and was there for around 30 minutes.
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