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Wife of Indian Minister Shashi Tharoor has been found dead a few days after she went on Twitter to expose her husband’s alleged cheating.
It will be a few days before the actual cause of her death is revealed, but one of the forensic specialists involved, reports Reuters, says “it was sudden, unnatural death.”
The minister claimed that his account was hacked when private messages between him and Lahore Daily Times journalist Mehr Tarar surfaced on Tharoor’s Twitter account last Wednesday.
To complicate matters further for the minister, his wife Sunanda revealed to the local media that it was she who had posted the BBM messages to Twitter to expose Tharoor’s “rip-roaring affair.”
As she reportedly said on the Economic Times, ““Our accounts have not been hacked and I have been sending out these tweets. I cannot tolerate this. This is a Pakistani woman who is an ISI (Inter Services Intelligence) agent, and she is stalking my husband. And you know how men are.”
Things got curiouser (in the words of Lewis Carroll) when the couple released a joint statement saying that they had resolved their differences and were “happily married.” Next we know, Sunanda’s body was found last Friday evening at the Leela Hotel where she was staying pending the completion of the renovation work currently carried out at her home.
Tharoor, 57, is the Junior human resource development minister for India and is one of the most popular Indian politicians on Twitter, with more than 2 million followers.
The former UN diplomat, however, has led a life of controversy in the past. In 2010, he had had to resign his ministerial position when he was linked with a sly plan to launch a new cricket team in the Indian Premier League. The allegations had implicated Sunanda Pushkar, who was his girlfriend at the time. He married her later that year.
The recent turn of events will make a stumbling block for Tharoor’s political career, and also threaten the ruling Congress party, the party of which he will be representing at the May general elections in India.
It will be a few days before the actual cause of her death is revealed, but one of the forensic specialists involved, reports Reuters, says “it was sudden, unnatural death.”
The minister claimed that his account was hacked when private messages between him and Lahore Daily Times journalist Mehr Tarar surfaced on Tharoor’s Twitter account last Wednesday.
To complicate matters further for the minister, his wife Sunanda revealed to the local media that it was she who had posted the BBM messages to Twitter to expose Tharoor’s “rip-roaring affair.”
As she reportedly said on the Economic Times, ““Our accounts have not been hacked and I have been sending out these tweets. I cannot tolerate this. This is a Pakistani woman who is an ISI (Inter Services Intelligence) agent, and she is stalking my husband. And you know how men are.”
Things got curiouser (in the words of Lewis Carroll) when the couple released a joint statement saying that they had resolved their differences and were “happily married.” Next we know, Sunanda’s body was found last Friday evening at the Leela Hotel where she was staying pending the completion of the renovation work currently carried out at her home.
Tharoor, 57, is the Junior human resource development minister for India and is one of the most popular Indian politicians on Twitter, with more than 2 million followers.
The former UN diplomat, however, has led a life of controversy in the past. In 2010, he had had to resign his ministerial position when he was linked with a sly plan to launch a new cricket team in the Indian Premier League. The allegations had implicated Sunanda Pushkar, who was his girlfriend at the time. He married her later that year.
The recent turn of events will make a stumbling block for Tharoor’s political career, and also threaten the ruling Congress party, the party of which he will be representing at the May general elections in India.
