Shashi Tharoor gets 11 stitches as chain in temple gives away


Thiruvananthapuram, Apr 15 (IANS): Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha Congress candidate Shashi Tharoor, aiming for a hat-trick of wins, Monday suffered a freak accident while performing a ritual at a temple near here, leading to eleven stitches on his head.

After preliminary celebrations at his home here on Vishu, the traditional New year festival, Tharoor left for the popular Gandhari Amman temple.

Praying while seated on the weighing balance, as part of a temple ritual, the chains holding the balance broke and fell on Tharoor's head. He was rushed to the state-run general hospital.

Tharoor's wounds needed eight stitches and he was taken for scanning, the doctors said, adding that the Congress leader's condition was now normal.

Tharoor is engaged in a tough three-way electoral battle with former Mizoram Governor Kummanem Rajasekheran of BJP and CPI's C. Divakaran, a sitting legislator and former state Minister.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Tharoor scraped through with a margin of around 15,000 votes aginst BJP's O. Rajagopal, who is now a MLA.

 

  

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  • Rita, Germany

    Tue, Apr 16 2019

    Hope he gets more votes atleast than his stiches atleast for the sake of pain he suffered on his head.Yes sometimes the way is heavy and full of pain to success.But it is worth if he wins.Wish him fast recovery.

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  • Rahul, NY

    Tue, Apr 16 2019

    Votes are given on vision and performance not victom mongering

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  • Rahul, NY

    Tue, Apr 16 2019

    Upar wale ki lathi me awaz nahi hoti. Anyway karma spares none. We all have to face the consequences of our actions for better or for worse

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  • Arun, managalore

    Tue, Apr 16 2019

    The curse of swami ayyapa.. next curse to pinarayi.. the curse will hit him soon.

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  • SD, Bangalore

    Mon, Apr 15 2019

    Sounds fishy! BJP party trying to knock Shashi Tharoor down before election?

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  • Mahathma, Mangalore

    Mon, Apr 15 2019

    KARMA prevails!!!

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  • aravind, mangaluru

    Mon, Apr 15 2019

    KARMA EFFECT....PENDULUM SWINGS BOTH THE SIDES,,,

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Mon, Apr 15 2019

    Get Well Soon ...

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  • SB, Mlore

    Mon, Apr 15 2019

    First time in 800 years of history of that temple .

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  • Flavian, Mangaluru/Kuwait

    Mon, Apr 15 2019

    Common guys.
    Be serious sometimes.
    When bad incident strikes no one can avoid or stop it.
    Today some one else and we would not know when we will fall to such fate.
    Nothing is in our hands and please compare or give non-sense reasons for such accidental event

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  • Monty Dotor, Mangalore

    Mon, Apr 15 2019

    Kotta! Kotta!! Kotta!!! Even God did not accept his offering. By the way was it punishment for something?

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  • R.Bhandarkar, Mangaluru

    Mon, Apr 15 2019

    Thulabharam ...we call it.
    Maybe he spoke something in English which had even the Goddess Gandhaari Amman confused...Something like
    May your Grace like the Chains that hold this weighing equipment twirl
    and twirl flashing down their brilliance on that part of my body which needs it the most to make me think more clearly.
    Lo and behold !
    Get well soon Tharoor.
    Be it the First or the Cattle class ...Physical pain is the same...Is it not ?

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  • gm, mlur

    Mon, Apr 15 2019

    Or else it was a planned one from the people who do not like him. The beatiful thing is that the Goddess saved him.

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  • R.Bhandarkar, Mangaluru

    Mon, Apr 15 2019

    GM...
    For your kind information the Goddess does not differentiate.
    Everything about her is beautiful. Her judgement final.
    We are no one to question.... If she wills 11 stitches....it will be 11 stitches..not one more one less...Got it?.

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  • gm, mlur

    Mon, Apr 15 2019

    I wrote because of your remark that the goddess is confused. God's plans are different than humans.

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  • pradeep, mangalore

    Mon, Apr 15 2019

    How can God be confused?God is the creator who knows everything that is to be known in this universe.I think you are the one who is confused,like the Jailtley and his govts GST rates.

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