Congress won't have any problem if Kanhaiya decides to join party: Shashi Tharoor

March 25, 2016 13:29

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has said that his party won't have any problem ifJawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar decides to join the grand old party. The Congress leader made the remarks while giving interview to CNN-IBN.

"If he (Kanhaiya) were to come to our party, I see no reason why he wouldn't be welcomed, but he has got another political affiliation,' Tharoor said.

When asked about the nationalism debate going on across the country, the Congress MP said, Who has made nationalism into an issue in politics today. It has been a very clear political strategy of our friends in the Bharatiya Janata Party. They have decided that they are going to appropriate nationalist mantle and depict their critics and opponents as anti-nationals. To my mind this is an extremely dangerous territory of any party in a democracy, and especially the ruling party in a democracy to go on.

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