Indian Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar has said that she "took upon the crimes of this man (Shashi Tharoor) during IPL" in a call with Economic Times following the controversial tweets she posted last evening. The controversy started last night when strange tweets that looked like personal messages between two people started appearing on Shashi Tharoor's Twitter account. It was mentioned in one of those tweets that it was allegedly a conversation between Tharoor and Pakistani Journalist Mehr Tarar. Tharoor went on to say that his account was hacked and everyone thought it was the work of a prankster till Pushkar told ET that it was she who made those private messages public on Tharoor's account. She said: "Our accounts have not been hacked and I have been sending out these tweets. I cannot tolerate this. This is a Pakistani woman who is an ISI (Inter Services Intelligence) agent, and she is stalking my husband. And you know how men are. He is flattered by the attention. I took upon myself the crimes of this man during IPL (Indian Premier League). I will not allow this to be done to me. I just can't tolerate this. I have nothing more to say." It is worth noting that back in 2010, when Shashi Tharoor was alleged of taking kickbacks in the form of sweat equity in the IPL team through Pushkar, he had said, "Whatever my personal relationships with any of the consortium members, I do…
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