Nirmala Sitharaman visits injured Shashi Tharoor in hospital, Congress MP tweets, 'Touched by her gesture'

In the busy election season, Kerala’s Congress MP Shashi Tharoor got injured while offering prayers in Thiruvananthapuram’s temple and was immediately admitted to General Hospital, while Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman paid a visit to the Congress leader.

Tharoor, who is a siting MP from Thiruvananthapuram, is contesting the Lok Sabha polls from the same constituency and has been campaigning since then. But, he sustained injuries and had six stitches on his head while he was performing ‘thulabharam’ ritual at a temple in Kerala.

In a humanitarian gesture, BJP leader and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met Shashi Tharoor in the General Hospital, while she was in the State for the campaigning of the BJP.

Shashi Tharoor got touched with the gesture and tweeted, “Touched by the gesture of @nsitharaman, who dropped by today morning to visit me in the hospital, amid her hectic electioneering in Kerala. Civility is a rare virtue in Indian politics - great to see her practice it by example!”

Kerala, which is set to vote on April 23 in a single phase for its 20 seats, will be seeing a triangular contest as the Left Democratic Alliance is pitted against the United Democratic Alliance and the NDA is gaining ground in the state after the recent Sabarimala temple incident.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi announced to contest from Kerala’s Wayanad district, other than traditional Amethi, and the Left parties have vowed to defeat him in the home turf of the Communists.

Results of the poll will be declared on May 23.

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