Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday acknowledged a grammatical error in his birthday greeting for Prime Minister Narendra Modi after an X user pointed out his mistake.
The error quickly caught the attention of social media users, with one X user calling out the Congress leader over the wording.
However, in his message, the Thiruvananthapuram MP wrote “in his 76th birthday” instead of the grammatically correct phrase “on his 76th birthday”. Tharoor had extended his birthday wishes to Modi on Thursday.
“For all those fulminating in outrage about my use of the word ‘drama’ in my first tweet from Nepal, the word does not only mean something theatrical. “That’s the sense in which I intended it.
It is also defined as ‘a state, situation or series of events involving intensely clashing forces’,” the Thiruvananthapuram MP said on X. But I do regret the choice of a word that could be so easily misinterpreted,” Tharoor had said.
The Congress leader, who is known for his command of the English language and use of complex vocabulary, responded to the criticism the following day. An X user had highlighted the error, writing, “Shashi ji made a grammar mistake !!! even if it is fat finger !!! The Congress leader had expressed concern over the disaster after arriving in Kathmandu, where he said he learned about the loss of life and the fact that around 2,000 or more people were estimated to be missing.
