Shashi Tharoor: Within panel’s mandate to seek clarification from IT ministry

The political row over Twitter tagging BJP spokesman Sambit Patra’s post on an alleged Congress “toolkit” as “manipulated media” has triggered a tug of war within the parliamentary panel on information technology.

A day after panel member and BJP MP Nishikant Dubey wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker demanding the removal of Tharoor as the panel’s chairman and his disqualification from the House under the Tenth Schedule, Tharoor on Wednesday said the committee is well within its mandate to seek a clarification from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology over its contacts with Twitter over the issue.