New Delhi, Jul 22 (IT) : Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday gave some serious dressing down to Shashi Tharoor for leaking contents of a closed-door party meeting she chaired on Tuesday.
"It has become your habit. Stop leaking meeting details," sources in the Congress cited a furious Sonia as saying. Tharoor reportedly leaked details of the meeting, in which he opposed the Congress plans to stall Parliament proceedings over Lalitgate and Vyapam scams.
At a meeting of the Congress MPs on Wednesday, Sonia expressed anger at the details of the party being reported in the media. At that point, Tharoor began to explain, only to be cut short by Sonia who then reprimanded the Thiruvananthapuram MP.
Sonia cracking whip on her senior leader came amid a belligerent Congress leaving no stone unturned to corner the Narendra Modi government over the various scams involving top BJP leaders. The Congress has been demanding the resignaiton of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and the chief ministers of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh over Lalitgate and Vyapam.
Parliament was disrupted for a second day on Wednesday after both the houses were adjourned for the day shortly after they met. Congress MPs were seen sporting black bands on their arms in protest in Lok Sabha, while its leaders in Rajya Sabha were involved in a bitter war of words with the government.