New Delhi
3 October 2009
Minister of State of External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said that people should work
rather than enjoy a holiday
on Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary.
"Gandhiji said 'Work is Workship' and we enjoy holiday on his birthday," Tharoor said in
a reply to a posting on the social networking
site Twitter.
To support his contention, Tharoor cited the views of visiting Vietnamese Vice President
Nguyen Thi Doan.
"In V'nam (Vietnam), Ho Chi Minh's birthday is a working day and citizens are expected
to put in an extra effort at work to
honour him," he said, quoting Nguyen whom he met at a dinner hosted by Vice President
Hamid Ansari here.
Tharoor's comment on his Twitter in September dubbing travel in economy class as
"cattle class" had evoked strong rebuke from
his party colleagues.
However, on Friday, the Congress party today dubbed Tharoor's latest tweet as his
"personal view".
"It may be his personal view. The holiday on the birth anniversary of the Father of the
Nation is for the nation to rededicate to his
ideals and principles," Congress Spokesman Shakeel Ahmed said when asked to react
to Tharoor's comments.
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