Kiren Rijiju claims Shashi Tharoor 'accepted in a way' Congress is 'anti-women'; recalls banter

“Shashi Tharoor said that Congress may be anti-women, but no woman would consider Shashi Tharoor anti-women,” Rijiju said in an ANI interview, a clip of which was widely shared online.

In the interview, Rijiju said that Tharoor told him Congress “may be anti-women” but he himself wasn't perceived like that. When asked if Tharoor accepted that Congress anti-women, Rijiju replied: ‘That is what he meant…in a way he accepted that Congress is anti-women, and I also accepted that he isn’t anti-women but his party is."

However, Tharoor clearly rejected Rijiju's claims clarifying that at no point was any such thing said or implied by him.