Congress MP Shashi Tharoor teaches social media a new word; says BJP in UP suffering from this ‘fear’

Tribune Web Desk
Chandigarh December 12

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor is known for his penchant for words and this time he has taught social media a new one — ‘allodoxaphobia’.

He explained that ‘allodoxaphobia’ means an irrational fear of opinions as he equated it with the BJP government in UP.

“Word of the day, indeed of the last seven years: Allodoxaphobia Meaning: an irrational fear of opinions. Usage: “The BJP government in UP slaps sedition& UAPA cases on people because its leadership suffers from allodoxaphobia.” (Greek: Allo=different, doxo=opinion,phobos=fear,” Tharoor wrote in a tweet.

The Thiruvananthapuram MP is quite active on Twitter and has recently been trolled for two of his photos.

On the first day of the Parliament’s winter session, his photo with some of the women MPs invited criticism as he captioned the photo, “Who says the Lok Sabha isn’t an attractive place to work?”

Later, he clarified that both the photo and the caption were done in good humour and at the initiative of the women MPs.

In another photo with a newlywed, Shashi Tharoor was mistaken as the groom and as he was being mercilessly trolled on Twitter, he said he was used to such trolling but objected to dragging non-political people (the newlyweds) into it.

“Bhakti towards the divine is to be respected. Bhakti towards a political leader or cause, especially in the name of religion, is deplorable. Bhakts in the latter sense refers to the devotees of the Sangh Parivar & Moditva,” he had tweeted.