You always do this: Sonia slams Tharoor for speaking against Cong strategy in Parliament

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor might have made news recently for his eloquent speech on why the British owe India for the colonialism but it seems Congress president Sonia Gandhi is not impressed. [caption id=“attachment_2357314” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Sonia Gandhi reportedly lashed out at Shashi Tharoor. PTI[/caption] According to TV reports, Sonia Gandhi lashed out at Tharoor at a meeting of the party legislators on Wednesday because Tharoor had reportedly made his comments at a Tuesday party meeting public by speaking to the media. CNN-IBN reported that Tharoor had objected to Congress disrupting the Parliament and had also said that Congress should allow the Parliament to function. Tharoor had addded that the Congress should not force adjournments through disruptions. “You always do this. It has become a habit with you,” India Today quoted Sonia Gandhi as telling Tharoor. It was only after party vice-president Rahul Gandhi intervened and ushered the party leaders out with comments intended to lighten the moment that the issue was resolved, at least for that time. Sonia Gandhi’s outburst against Tharoor came after other party leaders complained that Tharoor had breached party discipline, reported NDTV. His remarks against the Congress strategy for the Parliament had also appeared in the newspapers on Wednesday. Tharoor’s remarks have come at a time when the Congress has created uproar in both the Houses of Parliament over the recent Lalit Modi row and Vyapam scam and has demanded the resignation of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje and Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan. While Rajya Sabha failed to transact any business for the second straight day due to the uproar, Lok Sabha was paralysed on the first working day of the Monsoon Session. Both Houses were adjourned for the day on Wednesday. In the Upper House, as soon as obituary references were made, several opposition parties, including the Congress, BSP and the Left, insisted that no debate was possible without the resignation of Swaraj, Raje and Chouhan.