[BACKGROUND:
India’s Minister of State for External Affairs, Shashi Tharoor (who was a former Under Secretary General, UNO) recently ran into trouble when, in the wake of the Government’s austerity measures, he sarcastically retorted on Twitter that he would fly “cattle class” out of solidarity with all our holy cows, ” in a country where the cow is held sacred. And his identification of the ordinary citizens who travel by economy class with “cattle” hasn’t gone well with many sections, including his own Congress Party. Eventually, he had to apologise.]
In the Mahabharata of the Indian ballot battle
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