Mr Tharoor married Ms Pushkar, a former Dubai-based businesswoman, in 2010. Read the full story below:
Pushkar
first threatened to divorce her husband for “having an affair” with
Tarar, whom she has labelled an “ISI agent.” Then, she accused the
journalist of being a stalker who was trying to woo her husband. By late
afternoon, she had done an about-turn, declaring that she and her
husband were “happily married”. But the vitriol against 45-year-old
Tarar, who lives in Lahore with a teenage son, continued on Twitter and
on television. By evening, Pushkar had called the freelance journalist
an intrepid “hacker” who managed to tweet from the accounts of both
Pushkar and Tharoor and described the matter as a “national emergency”,
serious enough to be taken up by both the Pakistan and the Indian high
commissions.
The drama
unfolded yesterday when Tharoor’s followers on Twitter, who number over
two million, found that a personal tweet the minister had received from
Tarar had been made public on his Twitter handle. It read: “@mehrtarar I
love you, Shashi Tharoor. And I go while in love with you, irrevocably,
irreversibly, hamesha. Bleeding, but always your Mehr.”
More such
tweets followed — these have since been deleted from his account but
remain as screen grabs on the social networking site.
Pushkar
later admitted she had logged into her husband’s Twitter account and
leaked the tweets. She also told a newspaper that Tharoor was having an
affair with Tarar since April last year.It isn’t unusual for couples to
share email and social networking passwords, but it doesn’t often lead
to a public scandal.
However,
hours after Pushkar raised the storm on Twitter, she and Tharoor issued a
joint statement on the minister’s Facebook page saying that they were
“happily married”.
“We are
distressed by the unseemly controversy that has arisen about some
unauthorised tweets from our Twitter accounts. Various distorted
accounts of comments allegedly made by Sunanda have appeared in the
press. It appears that some personal and private comments responding to
these unauthorised tweets — comments that were not intended for
publication — have been misrepresented and led to some erroneous
conclusions. We wish to stress that we are happily married and intend to
remain that way. Sunanda has been ill and hospitalised this week and is
seeking to rest. We would be grateful if the media respects our
privacy,” it said.
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