Tharoor’s comments were in response to the reports about posters surfacing in Uttarakhand town Monday, asking Muslim traders to shut shops by June 15.
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor Tuesday reacted to the posters threatening Muslim traders in Uttarakhand to leave and called the incident “horrifying”. Tharoor, in a tweet, expressed his disappointment and remarked that if Mahatma Gandhi were alive today, he would be ashamed.
“This cannot be what we have reduced ourselves to. Gandhiji would be ashamed of the India we have created,” the Congress MP tweeted, quoting a media report.
Tharoor’s comments were in response to the reports about posters surfacing in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi town Monday, asking Muslim traders to shut shops by June 15. The incident happened in the wake of the ongoing tensions in the Himalayan state over the alleged abduction attempt on a minor girl by two men, including one from the minority community, last month, the police said.