NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday declined to just accept the ‘Veer Savarkar Award’, calling the organizers “irresponsible” for saying his identify with out him having agreed to obtain it.Tharoor was named among the many first winners of the newly instituted Veer Savarkar Worldwide Influence Award 2025, to be offered by Highrange Rural Improvement Society India.
“I’ve come to know from media stories that I’ve been named a recipient of the “Veer Savarkar Award,” which is to be offered right this moment in Delhi. I solely realized about this announcement yesterday in Kerala, the place I had gone to vote within the native self-government elections. There in Thiruvananthapuramresponding to media queries, I had clarified that I used to be neither conscious of, nor had accepted, such an award and it was irresponsible on the a part of the organizers to announce my identify with out my having agreed to obtain it,” the Thiruvananthapuram MP stated in a publish on X.“Regardless of that, right this moment in Delhi, some media retailers proceed to ask the identical query. Subsequently, I’m issuing this assertion to make clear the matter unequivocally. Within the absence of clarifications concerning the nature of the award, the group presenting it or some other contextual particulars, the query of my attending the occasion right this moment or accepting the award doesn’t come up,” he added.After Tharoor’s remarks, Aji Krishnan, secretary of the HRDS India stated that the Congress MP had been notified about it properly forward of time, PTI reported citing a TV channel.He added that HRDS India representatives and the jury chair had visited Tharoor at his residence to increase the invitation, throughout which the MP requested a listing of the opposite awardees.Kerala regulation minister P Rajeev had stated that the selection to just accept or decline the award rested solely with Tharoor.