Thiruvananthapuram: The Congress candidate of Thriuvananthapuram, Sasi Tharoor, has been served legal notice for picturing Hindu women in a bad light by saying that they used to have sexual encounters outside of their marriage in his book ‘The Great Indian Novel’.
The notice was send by a resident of Thiruvananthapuram, Sandhya Sreekumar, through Adv. Supriya Devayani.
In the novel, Sasi Tharoor, says that women belonging to the Nair community used to sleep with other men outside marriage and the husband had no right to enter the room if the slippers of another man was found outside the door.
This outrageous claims of Tharoor have attracted massive backlash from the women belonging to Nair community. Many women have took to social media to lash out at the Member of Parliament. They are demanding an apology from him.
Women are accusing him of hurting the dignity of Hindu-Nair women and said that he might be expressing his own moral flaws by projecting it on to women. Sasi Tharoor had married three times and his last wife Sunanda Pushkar died in mysterious circumstances.
Sasi Tharoor, a two-time Member of Parliament from Thiruvananthapuram, is the prime suspect in the murder of his wife Sunanda Pushkar. She was found dead in her room in Leela Palace hotel in New Delhi after an earlier altercation with her husband Sasi Tharoor.
