Speaking at an event in Maharashtra, Tharoor agreed on the fact that Congress' student outreach programme did not ‘resonate’ as much as the CJP's protest.
Tharoor insisted that he was stressing that political parties must open their doors and create pathways for the next generation to gain the power to shape politics.
Tharoor noted that Rahul Gandhi's 'Chhatron ki goonj' programme had raised the issue of paper leaks and other issues central to students even before the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) announced the mass protest.
Was our finger missing from the pulse of the Gen Z?”But Tharoor later claimed that his remarks had been distorted in the media.
Watch it and judge for yourself, as clearly none of the Journalists distorting it have done," Tharoor said in a post on X.
Following his remarks that Congress's student outreach did not resonate with the students as much as the Cockroach party's paper leak protests did, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Saturday sought to explain his stand, decrying that the media was interpreting it as "an attack on my own party or its leadership". Speaking at an event in Maharashtra, Tharoor agreed on the fact that Congress' student outreach programme did not ‘resonate’ as much as the CJP's protest. Tharoor insisted that he was stressing that political parties must open their doors and create pathways for the next generation to gain the power to shape politics. Also read: ‘No one has seen us in same room’: Rahul Gandhi's cheeky AMA response to ‘are you Batman’ question This comes after Tharoor said during an event in Maharashtra that all opposition parties have to be conscious of the fact that they didn't "provide a route into our parties for the kinds of people who are at Jantar Mantar last month".
The established parties will cease to be relevant unless they can listen to the new voices that they haven't heard so far, he remarked. Tharoor noted that Rahul Gandhi's 'Chhatron ki goonj' programme had raised the issue of paper leaks and other issues central to students even before the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) announced the mass protest. Also read: 'Some people tried to mislead Gen Z': Dharmendra Pradhan breaks silence on resignation, student protests Agreeing on the fact that Congress' student outreach programme did not ‘resonate’ as much as the CJP's protest, Tharoor said, “We need to ask ourselves what did we fail to do? Did we fail to listen? Was our finger missing from the pulse of the Gen Z?”
But Tharoor later claimed that his remarks had been distorted in the media. "It takes a particular combination of incompetence and malice for some media to interpret my conversation with Rishabh Shah at @iimunofficial as an attack on my own party or its leadership. "Here is the entire video, uncut and unexpurgated, in full, of the conversation. Watch it and judge for yourself, as clearly none of the Journalists distorting it have done," Tharoor said in a post on X.
