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Another Tharoor tweet: why holiday on Gandhi Jayanti?
New Delhi: Continuing to ‘tweet’ his opinion despite receiving flak, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor now says people should work rather than enjoy a holiday on Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary.
“Gandhiji said ‘work is worship’ and we enjoy holiday on his birthday,” he said in reply to a posting on the social networking site Twitter.
To support his contention, Mr. Tharoor cited the views of the visiting Vietnamese Vice-President Nguyen Thi Doan. “In 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 Ms. Nguyen Thi Doan, whom he met at a dinner hosted by Vice-President Hamid Ansari on Thursday night.
The Congress, however, said Mr. Tharoor’s remark might be his personal view. “The holiday on the birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation is for the nation to rededicate [itself] to his ideals and principles,” party spokesman Shakeel Ahmed said when he was asked about the Minister’s comments. — PTI
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