New Delhi: The furious wife of the Indian government’s top-tweeting minister admitted on Thursday she had hacked his account to send out messages exposing an alleged affair he was having with a Pakistani journalist.
The scandal was splashed on the front pages of several newspapers after a curious series of messages appeared on the Twitter account of the suave thrice-married human resources minister Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday evening.
They showed private exchanges apparently between 57-year-old Tharoor and Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar, 45, in which she professed her love for him and he said his wife had discovered his adultery.
Sunanda Tharoor, a formerly Dubai-based entrepreneur whom the minister married in 2010, confessed to sending the messages and also dragged up a corruption scandal that nearly wrecked her husband’s career.
“That woman pursued and pursued him… men are stupid anyway… for all you know she is a Pakistani agent. Where’s love, where’s loyalty in this world?… I am so distraught,” she was quoted as saying in the Indian Express.
Tharoor (@shashitharoor) posted a message late Wednesday to his two million followers claiming his account had been “hacked” while Tarar (@mehrtarar) denied having an affair with him in a series of messages.
“Our accounts have not been hacked and I have been sending out these tweets,” Sunanda told the Economic Times, while also referring to a cricket scandal in 2010 shortly after her husband entered politics.
The French-speaking former UN diplomat had to resign from his first ministerial post in 2010 after revelations that then-girlfriend Sunanda had been given a free stake in a new Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket team.
Opposition parties said the stake, reportedly worth up to 15 million dollars, was for Tharoor’s behind-the-scenes services in putting together a consortium that bought the Kochi franchise, based in his home state of Kerala.
“I took upon myself the crimes of this man during IPL. I will not allow this to be done to me,” Sunanda told the Economic Times… see more
source: gulfnews
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