Hardeep Puri vs Shashi Tharoor Over 2009 Dinner With George Soros In US
NDTV
"In retrospect, it is clear that the name was included because the gentleman in question was among the benefactors of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, and the Minister of State was keen to meet him," Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said
Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has responded to Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's post on X that he met US billionaire George Soros at a formal dinner at Mr Puri's New York home when the Union Minister was India's Ambassador and Permanent Representative at the United Nations. Since there is so much unhealthy curiosity about this tweet, I knew Mr Soros well in my @UN days as an upstanding international-minded resident of New York. He was a friend in the social sense: i have never received or solicited a penny from him or any of his foundations for... https://t.co/c1PmAHygyl Language has frequently been accorded pride of place amongst major arts of deception.Some of my friends in the Congress Party excel in obfuscation; but they tweet at their own peril.I want to take up two issues raised by them.First - my friend Dr @ShashiTharoor Ji, who was a... pic.twitter.com/sIWc2omjg8
Mr Puri indicated the Congress MP did not show the whole picture - he said it was Mr Tharoor himself who gave the list of invitees for the dinner, and the "gentleman in question was among the benefactors of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, and the Minister of State was keen to meet him."
Mr Tharoor was the Minister of State for External Affairs at that time.
