Kottayam: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday criticised the circulation of cropped images showing him with Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra and called it an act of “cheap politics”.
The Thiruvananthapuram MP said that he was being trolled by displaying a cropped version of a photo taken during Moitra’s birthday party, which was attended by around 15 people, including his sister.
“This is just cheap politics. It was the birthday party of that child. Well, she is not a child, but for me, she is like one. That MP is around 20 years younger to me,” he said.
“Instead of showing the full image, they are spreading the cropped one,” he added.
He said he doesn’t give importance to such trolls and is busy working for the people.
“They are spreading it as a private meeting, but then who clicked the picture,” Tharoor asked.
Moitra had earlier said that she was “most amused” to see some personal photos of her being circulated on social media by “the BJP’s troll sena”.
“I like green dress better on me than white blouse. And why bother cropping — show the rest of the folks at dinner as well. Bengal’s women live a life. Not a lie,” she had posted on social media platform X.
With inputs from PTI