Succumbing to massive protests , the government last year ordered the removal of compulsory English questions from the civil services exam at the eleventh hour. However, pro english aspirants received support from unexpected quarters when Delhi top cop B S Bassi expressed strong support for stringent questions in English for the upcoming civil services exam. While senior JDU leader Pavan Verma called Mr Bassi an elitist, chief spokesperson of AAP Yogendra Yadav accused Bassi of attempting 'linguistic apartheid'. When confronted with these allegations , B S Bassi retorted furiously. Taking a cue from Arvind Kejriwal,he looked straight into the camera, and asked, "Do I look like an elitist'. He further added, " Even I supported removal of English from the civil services exam.But then I was asked to interrogate Shashi Tharoor. All I asked was What happened that night". Holding up a piece of paper Mr Bassi showed the media Dr Tharoor's answer. It read,
'Well it's lurid that a piffling squabble the day before achieved such Brobdingnagian proportions. After that I was taciturn and morose......'
Mr Bassi further added, "We had to interrupt him mid way. None of us had any clue what he was saying. Even his lawyer appeared confused"
Sources close to Dr Swamy's sources in the Delhi police confirmed the sequence of events. Even though as a precaution the interrogating teams were armed with Thesaurus and Merriam-Webster ,they were rendered useless by Shashi Tharoor's volley of verbal assaults. While Mr Bassi is reported to have fallen of his chair, Dr Tharoor's own lawyer asked for a break to answer nature's call. Meanwhile, Dr Swamy has alleged Tharoor of attempting to intimidate the police yet again. He has charged Tharoor of misleading the police by emailing them Readers Digest's word power challenge a day before the interrogation, while not using a single word from it in his answers.
Even as Mukherjee Nagar and Karol Bagh remained tensed, a spike in ABVP activists joining coaching centres was reported. "Huge protests are planned across central Delhi. We need aspirants to protest" quipped a student leader.
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