‘I see no reason for either of us’: Shashi Tharoor’s cryptic swipe at Hardeep Puri over George Soros & a New York dinner

Congress Member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor on December 21 refuted Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri's claims about a 2009 incident of insisting the inclusion of US billionaire George Soros in an invite list to a dinner in New York. Tharoor, the MP from Thiruvananthapuram, said his and Minister Puri's recollections of the dinner hosted by Puri in New York in when he was posted as Indian Ambassador to the US differ. Recalling a dinner in New York The former Union Minister Tharoor was responding to Puri's post in which he recalled an occasion on October 12, 2009 when Tharoor had visited New York as Minister of State for External Affairs shortly after Puri was posted as India’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative at UN. Puri said he had then hosted Tharoor and his companion “at a briefing breakfast on 11 October 2009, and then for dinner on the evening of 12 October 2009.” The conversation on X between the two politicians began on December 15 when an X user who identified himself as a BJP worker from Karnataka showed Tharoor an old post from 2009 in which he said he had "met old friend George Soros upbeat about India and curious about our neighbourhood.