Congress Member of Parliament (MP) from Thiruvananthapuram, Shashi Tharoor, on Thursday filed a crook defamation complaint against the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Kerala state President, PS Sreedharan Pillai, for statements he made at some point during a press conference in advance this month regarding Tharoor’s wives. A source near Shashi Tharoor showed TNM on Thursday that the petition, which was filed in a standard by a Judicial Magistrate Court, will take the statements of the MP on March 23. He said that the case had been filed because the comments that had been given by the BJP State President were false.
In a press conference on March five, which was held in the capital, the BJP country president had said, “Everybody is talking about how the three other halves of the Congress candidate in Thiruvananthapuram died. But neither the BJP nor I desire to invite that query.” According to Tharoor’s complaint, Sreedharan Pillai said that Tharoor’s 2d wife was a local of Adoor in Pathanamthitta district and the niece of legal professional Madhusoodanan Nair. During his press conference, Sreedharan Pillai allegedly went on to mention that his 2nd wife used to method him regarding the legal recommendation. “I in no way found out this earlier than due to the fact I did no longer need to use such incidents as political gear,” added the BJP state president without citing Tharoor’s name at once.
Later, while the media questioned Sreedharan Pillai as to whether or not Tharoor’s three other wives had passed away, Pillai stated that they had passed away, and one of them had divorced the Congress MP. Shashi Tharoor was first married to Tilottama Mukherjee, who became a professor of Humanities at New York University. Later, he married Christa Giles, a Canadian diplomat who was working for the United Nations. In this situation, Sreedharan Pillai’s claims about Tharoor’s second spouse being a local of Adoor are false and malicious, says Tharoor. In August 2010, Shashi Tharoor married Sunanda Pushkar in his ancestral home in Palakkad. However, on January 17, 2014, Sunanda was found unresponsive in her room in motel Leela Palace motel in New Delhi under mysterious circumstances. The case regarding this is nevertheless going on. Speaking during a Manorama event, Tharoor stated, “The country president of the BJP, Sreedharan Pillai, went to this point as to invent an imaginary marriage to an imaginary person whom I have in no way met from a place I have never been to with the call of a father-in-law or someone whom I even have in no way encounter and claimed that I had pushed her to suicide.”