'Ab kya hoga, ye rab jane...': Tharoor takes dig at failed US-Iran talks in Pakistan
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New Delhi (PTI): Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday took a swipe at the "failed" US-Iran peace talks in Pakistan with an Urdu couplet, saying only god knows now what will happen.
"Ab kya hoga, ye rab jane; Na woh mane, na ye mane (only god knows what will happen now as both sides did not agree)," Tharoor said on X, tagging a post-talks video clip of US Vice President J D Vance, who led the American delegation at the negotiations in Islamabad.
The United States and Iran failed to reach a peace deal at their historic 21-hour talks in Pakistan, leaving the fate of a tenuous two-week ceasefire in doubt, with both sides attempting to hold each other responsible for the collapse of the negotiations.
अब क्या होगा, ये रब जाने
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) April 13, 2026
ना वो माने, ना ये माने https://t.co/DYrXpa7C8h
Vance said the Iranian side did not accept Washington's terms for ending the war even as the US presented its "final and best offer".
Hours after the talks collapsed, US President Donald Trump said on social media that the negotiations with Tehran failed as "Iran is unwilling to give up its nuclear ambitions".
Trump said the US Navy will actively interdict any vessel in international waters found to have paid tolls to Iran for transiting through the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping route that handles roughly 20 per cent of global oil and LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas).
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the head of the Iranian negotiation team, said it is for the US to decide whether it can "earn our trust or not".
The Iranian foreign ministry, without elaborating, said the US side resorted to "excessive" and "illegal demands".
The failure to reach an agreement has dimmed the prospect of reopening the Strait of Hormuz to stabilise the global energy marke
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TN CM accuses BJP-led Centre of 'secretively' working on delimitation
Ranipet (PTI): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Monday accused the BJP-led Centre of "secretively" working towards delimitation and alleged that there was a conspiracy behind the move.
While there were several issues affecting the people, such as LPG shortage, amid elections in states, in order to divert people, the BJP-led Centre is desperate to implement delimitation right now, he said.
According to him, the proposal involving key constitutional amendments would be transformative in nature and is set to change Indian politics.
"However, how are they going to do it? What kind of amendments? The union government does not provide an explanation on how it proposed to do it. Also, it has not responded to any of the questions," he said.
Addressing a poll rally here, he alleged, "As they secretively work on this matter, it is clear that there is a conspiracy to it."
Now they are claiming "deceptively" that for Tamil Nadu, there shall be an increase in constituencies.
"A big danger is hiding in that claim," he said.
Citing an example of a sweet dish in which several ingredients are concealed, he said, "the danger is hidden inside the delimitation."
"Right now, TN has 39 LS seats and UP has 80, which is 41 more. If delimitation is introduced, the difference will become 61."
Hence, the gap in seats between southern and northern states will rise and through this, the BJP-led centre is trying to "muffle our voice" in the Parliament, he added.
The CM further alleged: "This is a move that would impact the whole of India. However, they are trying to implement this without holding any consultations with state governments or opposition parties."
Moreover, this was the season of elections and when ordinary people themselves face restrictions, why does the Centre not have any such restriction? he asked.
"Why this hurry?" he questioned and wondered why the initiative could not be considered after April 29, following completion of polls.
Stalin quoted Congress leader Sonia Gandhi's article in an English daily on this issue and said he concurred with her.
Sonia Gandhi has said Tamil Nadu must not be affected --the line of the DMK-- and has opposed BJP.
He said if late AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa had been alive, she would have taken a tough stance, like the DMK, on issues that compromised the state's rights.
Jayalalithaa strongly opposed GST and NEET.
Following her demise, Palaniswami has made the AIADMK "dummy" and that party could not oppose the BJP on such an important issue that would affect Tamil Nadu, he claimed.
He claimed that the Centre mandated "Hindi learning" if Rs 2,000 cr education fund was to be released.
