By NNN-PTI,
New Delhi : An angry Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor today hit out at the media claiming that they had misreported his remarks on Jawaharlal Nehru and demanded that they issue a correction.
A day after his reported remarks at an academic seminar on international relations created a flutter in the Congress, Tharoor called a press conference in his office and said he was dismayed at the “inaccurate and tendentious reporting”.
He said that as chairman of the seminar organised by the Indian Council of World Affairs, he had only made an honest summary of London School of Economics professor Lord Bhikhu Parekh’s hour-long speech on “India’s Place in the World”.
He also noted that Parkeh had suggested that India export its values and systems to the world.
Tharoor said that in his intervention, he had “very gently and politely disagreed with Lord Parekh”.