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Tharoor, Pushkar to tie the knot at ancestral home in Kerala | Former Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor will tie the knot with his fiancée Sunanda
Pushkar in a quiet ceremony at his ancestral home in Elavanchery village in Kerala's Palakkad district tomorrow. Wedding preparations are in full swing at the 200-year-old
ancestral home, known as Mundarath House. "We are all busy as Shashi Tharoor is
coming. All his relatives are here and we are going to celebrate Onam together
in a big way," said Jayasankari Amma, Tharoor's grandmother. Tharoor's early morning
marriage ceremony will be attended by close family and friends and then the couple
is expected to leave for his constituency Thiruvananthapuram for the reception
on August 23. "This is a very great occasion for us, a get to together also inspite
of the marriage occasion where all the people from all over the world, who are
relatives are coming here to participate in it. And also it combines with the
Onam, which is also a celebration for Malayalee," said M G Menon, Tharoor's maternal
uncle. Sunanda Pushkar, the daughter of a retired Army colonel, hails from Jammu
and Kashmir . A Kashmiri wedding ceremony will take place in Dubai on August 30
followed by another grand reception in Delhi in September. Tharoor resigned as
a minister over allegations of corruption in winning a cricket league franchise
in the Indian Premier League. The controversy surfaced when Modi revealed on his
Twitter feed that Tharoor had advised the IPL management against disclosing the
name of Dubai-based businessperson Sunanda Pushkar, known to be close to Tharoor.
Following the controversy, Tharoor tendered his resignation on April 18. Modi
was later sacked as IPL Commissioner by the Indian cricket board. |
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