'Everything I Tweet is My Personal Opinion': Shashi Tharoor After Post on Mahua Moitra's Goddess Kali Remark

“Everything I tweet is my personal opinion”, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said on Thursday, a day after his Twitter post on Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra's Goddess Kali remark on Goddess Kali was termed as "personal opinion" by his party. While the BJP severely criticised Moitra and her party Trinamool Congress distanced itself from the comment and condemned it, Tharoor said he was "taken aback by the attack on Moitra" and urged everyone to "lighten up and leave religion to individuals to practice privately". When asked about Tharoor's post, Congress communication department head Pawan Khera said the party's stand is that these comments are Tharoor's "personal opinion". Replying to a post criticising him for his remarks and accusing him of "selective politics", Tharoor had also ticked off the person, saying "if you can't tell the difference between a Hindu lady insulting the Prophet of Islam and a Hindu lady describing ways in which devotion is expressed to a Hindu goddess, then I'm afraid you're beyond redemption".