Tharoor on trolling for his ‘worry’ over Jamaat-e-Islami win at Dhaka University, says he fears for Hindus in Bangladesh

“If that qualifies as ‘praise’, then I can only say that the English language is not what it used to be when I learned it,” he said in a post on X.

The former global diplomat had on Thursday said the victory of the Jamaat's student wing in the Dhaka University elections “may have registered as barely a blip on most Indian minds”.

He termed it a sign of “increasing sense of frustration” with major parties, including the (banned) Awami League of the since-exiled-to-India ex-PM Sheikh Hasina, and the Bangladesh National Party (BNP) of another former PM, Khaleda Zia.