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Call it bad luck but Twitter seems to be the Achilles heel of Minister of State Shashi Tharoor.

Call it bad luck but Twitter seems to be the Achilles heel of Minister of State Shashi Tharoor. On the night of 15 January, over 2 million followers of his were made privy to intimate messages posted on his account. While Tharoor said his account had been hacked, his wife Sunanda tweeted that she had posted the messages through Tharoor’s account, claiming they’d been sent to Tharoor by a Pakistani woman journalist Mehr Tarar. In subsequent posts, she accused Tarar of being an ISI agent who she claimed was ‘stalking my husband’.

Tharoor remains one of the most followed Indian politicians on Twitter and once landed himself in controversy with a tweet about travelling ‘cattle class’. This latest controversy has left Tharoor red faced once again.

In a last ditch effort to salvage the situation, Tharoor issued a ‘joint statement’ on Facebook asserting that they were ‘happily married and intend to remain that way.’

But about the same time, Sunanda was appearing on TV channels saying she felt “destroyed as a wife and a woman” and that she would seek a divorce from Shashi Tharoor. Will we see a ceasefire or will there be yet another salvo? Keep scrolling up and down your Twitter timelines.

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