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Sunanda Pushkar case: Political Implications for Congress

Sunanda Pushkar case: Political Implications for Congress By  Deepak Parvatiyar January 8, 2015 Much to the discomfort of the Congress, Sunanda Puskhar – the deceased wife of high profile Congress Member of Parliament and former minister Shashi Tharoor – has risen from the ashes. On January 7 this year, the Delhi Police called Pushkar’s death as murder and filed a First Information Report against unknown persons in this connection. Pushkar had died under mysterious condition in a Delhi five star hotel exactly a year ago, when Tharoor was a minister. What gave an ominous twist to her death was just a day before her death on January 17, last year, she had accused in an angry Twitter exchange, a Pakistani journalist of having an affair with her husband Tharoor. The Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences has revealed that Pushkar’s death was caused by “poison” and not by an “overdose of Alprax,” as was mentioned in the