Swamy urges Centre not to support Tharoor's candidature

Chennai, Jun 21 (UNI) Janata Party President Subramaniam Swamy today demanded the Centre to withdraw support to the candidature of Shashi Tharoor for the post of UN Secretary General.

In a statement here, he claimed that Mr Tharoor's candidature had no support from countries abroad.

He also demanded that Mr Tharoor should decline the post to ''save India's self-respect.'' UNI GV AJ RR RS1847