THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Thiruvananthapuram City police have arrested five Yuva Morcha workers for vandalising the office of Congress leader and MP Shashi Tharoor. The arrested have been identified as Manu, 25, and Akhil S Nair, 28, of Rajaji Nagar; Govind, 29, of Nemom, Vishnu, 28, of Kunnukuzhy and Harikrishnan, 27, of Neyyattinkara.
Police sources said the five were nabbed by the Cantonment Police on Tuesday. Tharoor’s office was vandalised by Yuva Morcha workers on Monday in retaliation to his usage of ‘Hindu Pakistan’ during a private function last week.
Delivering a lecture on ‘Threats Faced by Indian Democracy and Secularism’, Tharoor had said that if the BJP was voted to power in 2019, they will rewrite the Constitution, which ultimately will lead to the creation of a ‘Hindu Pakistan’.
The jibe soon evolved into a controversy as the BJP leaders assailed the comment as anti democratic and anti-Hindu.