Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday met Congress president Sonia Gandhi in a bid to explain his controversial "cattle class" remark on Twitter.Sources said Tharoor arrived at 10 Janpath and spent around 15 minutes with Sonia. He is reported to have explained to Sonia the circumstances under which he made the remarks and the words he used.
"Absolutely, in cattle class out of solidarity with all our holy cows," Tharoor had written on Twitter, immediately inviting flak from the Congress and demands from partymen for his resignation.
Although Tharoor apologised for his remarks last week, the controversy refused to die down. His comments were seen as a dig on the Congress's austerity drive, under which Sonia flew by economy class to Mumbai and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi opted for A/C chair car train travel to Ludhiana.
After meeting Sonia, Tharoor was scheduled to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who had last week played down the minister's remarks as a "joke".
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