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Civility a rare virtue in Indian politics: Shashi Tharoor after Nirmala Sitharaman meets him in hospital

| @indiablooms | Apr 16, 2019, at 11:06 am

Thiruvananthapuram, Apr 16 (IBNS): At a time political leaders are hurling abuses against each other in the ongoing election season, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor was paid a visit by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at a hospital on Tuesday.

Tharoor, an outgoing MP from Thiruvananthapuram, injured himself during his visit to a temple visit on Monday.

On Tuesday, the Congress man tweeted a picture where Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sitharaman is seen shaking hand with Tharoor.

"Touched by the gesture of @nsitharaman, who dropped by today morning to visit me in the hospital, amid her hectic electioneering in Kerala. Civility is a rare virtue in Indian politics - great to see her practice it by example!" Tharoor said in the tweet.

The Congress leader sustained a head injury at the Gandhari Amman Kovil Temple in Thampanoor after the weighing scale, in which he was sitting, broke.

He was immediately rushed to a hospital for preliminary treatment.

Later Tharoor was taken to a different hospital. He had 11 stitches, media reports said.

Image Credit: twitter.com/ShashiTharoor

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