Shashi Tharoor calls reporters 'scum', later says it was directed only at one channel

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor lost his cool on Wednesday when he was repeatedly asked questions regarding the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar, and called media reporters ‘self appointed liars and scum’.

“I speak to the police, not to self appointed liars and scum,” said Tharoor when a reporter repeatedly asked him to comment on the ongoing case.

The incident comes after a court allowed the police to carry out lie-detector tests on three aides in connection with Pushkar’s death.

Later, Tharoor took to Twitter to further criticize the reporter.

But on Thursday morning, Tharoor took to the social media site again to clarify that his comments were directed only to one channel and not towards the media in general.