On his part, Tharoor told NDTV that he cannot be called a fan of Modi. “No, afraid you can't. I have been intrigued by the fact that the paraphrases of my piece I have seen in the Indian media looks like people don't actually read every word and every nuance,” he said when asked if he could be called a ‘Modi fan' now after his piece in the website.
Tharoor said his piece very clearly explains that for a dozen years the Congress party had good reasons to criticise him very severely for the 2002 riots.
But the way he has conducted himself after the election and spoken from the moment of his victory he “has been amazingly gracious and accommodative” of even those who had not voted for him.
Tharoor was all praise for the language and tone used by Modi and so he thought it would be churlish not to acknowledge it.
“We should acknowledge that this may the evolution of Modi 2.0 but if Modi 1.0 reemerges, then we will robustly oppose him,” he said.
