Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor tweets "I stand with Modiji on this", here's why
New Delhi: Prominent Congress leader and Thiruvananthapuram, MP, Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday evening dug through the tweets of the official twitter handle of PM Narendra Modi’s official website. The former International diplomat then referred to one of the tweets from the handle from 2013 and retweeted it with a comment saying he stands with Narendra Modi on the matter.
In 2013, the twitter handle @narendramodi_in had tweeted on the matter with a border dispute with the Chinese Army when the UPA government was in power at the Centre. The handle had quoted Narendra Modi questioning “China withdraws its forces, but I wonder why Indian forces are withdrawing from Indian Territory? Why did we retreat?”
Retweeting the old tweet, Tharoor took a dig at PM Modi saying he stands with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s question of 2013 and added that he should now question it himself as he is the Prime Minister of the country and a similar situation is prevailing on the border.
Lately, Narendra Modi led BJP government at the Centre has been under attack by the opposition due to the border dispute with China and the standoff between the armed forces of the two countries. Several twitter campaigns have been run by the opposition parties and twitter users, calling out on the Central government for failing to manage the situation at the border.
China withdraws its forces but I wonder why Indian forces are withdrawing from Indian territory? Why did we retreat? : @narendramodi
— narendramodi_in (@narendramodi_in) May 13, 2013
I stand with Modiji on this. PM must answer his question! https://t.co/xauOoFONvh
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) July 7, 2020
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Screenwriter Salim Khan on ventilator support and stable, say doctors
Mumbai (PTI): Veteran screenwriter Salim Khan suffered a brain haemorrhage which has been tackled, is on ventilator support as a safeguard and stable, doctors treating him said on Wednesday, a day after he was admitted to the Lilavati Hospital here.
The 90-year-old, one half of the celebrated Salim-Javed duo which scripted films such as "Sholay", "Deewar" and "Don" with Javed Akhtar, is in the ICU and recovery might take some time given his age.
"His blood pressure was high for which we treated him and we had to put him on a ventilator because we wanted to do certain investigations. Now the ventilator was put as a safeguard so that his situation doesn't get worse. So it is not that he is critical," Dr Jalil Parkar told reporters.
"We did the investigations that were required and today we have done a small procedure on him, I will not go into the details. The procedure done is called DSA (digital subtraction angiography). The procedure has been accomplished, he is fine and stable and shifted back to ICU. By tomorrow, we hope to get him off the ventilator. All in all, he is doing quite well," he added.
Asked whether he suffered a brain haemorrhage, the doctor said, "Unko thoda haemorrhage hua tha, which we’ve tackled. No surgery is required.
As concern over Khan's health mounted, his children, including superstar Salman Khan and Arbaaz Khan, daughter Alvira, and sons-in-law Atul Agnihotri and Aayush Sharma, have been seen outside the hospital along with other well-wishers. His long-time partner Akhtar was also seen coming out of the hospital.
Khan, a household name in the 70s and 80s, turned 90 on November 24 last year. It was the day Dharmendra, the star of many of his films, including "Sholay", "Seeta aur Geeta" and "Yaadon Ki Baraat", passed away.
Hailing from an affluent family in Indore, Khan arrived in Mumbai in his 20s with dreams of stardom. He was good looking and confident he would make a mark in the industry as an actor. But that did not happen. And then, after struggling for close to a decade and getting confined to small roles in films, he changed lanes.
He worked as an assistant to Abrar Alvi and soon met Akhtar to form one of Hindi cinema's most formidable writing partnerships. They worked together on two dozen movies with most of them achieving blockbuster status.
Other than "Sholay", "Deewar" and "Don", Khan and Akhtar also penned "Trishul", "Zanjeer", "Seeta Aur Geeta", "Haathi Mere Saathi", "Yaadon Ki Baarat" and "Mr India".
