Reality Check : Shashi Tharoor Disappointed As President Droupadi Murmu’s Speech Refers Emergency But Not Manipur, India-China Border Face-Off

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Senior Congress Leader and four- time Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor has expressed his unhappiness over the joint session address to both houses of parliament by President Droupadi Murmu.

Taking to media persons outside parliament , Tharoor quoted by ANI said, “There was no logic of talking about Emergency in the address after 49 years. She should have spoken about today’s issues. We did not hear anything about the NEET exam or unemployment. The word Manipur did not come out from President Murmu or PM Modi. Issues like the India-China border should have been taken up in the address…”

Earlier in the day Shashi Tharoor took oath of office for his fourth term as MP from Thiruvananthapuram , Kerala.

During her speech the President also mention about the newly enacted Citizenship (Amendment) Act.

“The government has started granting citizenship to refugees under CAA law; wish for a better future for such persons,” said Murmu.

President Murmu also touched upon the vexed topic of the imposition of the Emergency in 1975, saying the two-year-long period was the “biggest” and “darkest” chapter of the direct attack on the Constitution.

The President congratulated the people of Jammu and Kashmir for the high voter turnout recorded in the union territory in the recent Lok Sabha elections and lauded the Election Commission for holding the world’s biggest democratic exercise.

Congratulating the new MPs in her first address to the joint sitting of Parliament after the constitution of the 18th Lok Sabha, Murmu said she hoped they would act as the medium for fulfilling the aspirations of the people of India.