Nirmala Sitharaman Visits Shashi Tharoor In Hospital

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who set politics aside and visited Congress candidate Shashi Tharoor at a hospital in Thiruvanthapuram on Tuesday after he was injured during a religious ritual at a temple, had not shared her plan even with her party, she said.

Congress Leader Shashi Tharoor this morning said he was "touched" by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's gesture of visiting him in the hospital, a day after he injured himself while offering prayers at a temple in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram.

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who set politics aside and visited Congress candidate Shashi Tharoor at a hospital in Thiruvanthapuram on Tuesday after he was injured during a religious ritual at a temple, had not shared her plan even with her party, she said.

Congress Leader Shashi Tharoor this morning said he was "touched" by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's gesture of visiting him in the hospital, a day after he injured himself while offering prayers at a temple in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram.