THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Thiruvananthapuram UDF candidate Shashi Tharoor has given explanation about his controversial Tweet and trolled his critics in this regard.

As part of his election campaign, he had visited Thiruvananthapuram market the other day and shared the picture of his visit on his Twitter handle. What had trapped Tharoor was the heading he had given to Tweet.

On Wednesday, after visiting a fish market, Tharoor had tweeted, “found a lot of enthusiasm at the fish market even for a squeamishly vegetarian MP”. He had posted a few photographs at the fish market, one of them showing Tharoor holding a fish covered with paper to avoid direct contact with the fish.

Finding fault with the word “squeamish’’, BJP candidate Kummanam Rajasekharan demanded that Tharoor withdraw the comment, which he claimed insults fisherfolk. The BJP leader said, “Tharoor has found that fishermen and fish are disgusting. Thousands of fishermen in Thiruvananthapuram are living in nauseating circumstances – they are living in such a situation due to Tharoor’s failure, as he could do little for them. Tharoor should say whether the votes of fishermen are also causing him nausea.”

The CPI(M)-led LDF joined the issue, accusing Tharoor of insulting fishermen, who had saved thousands of people during last year’s flood in the state. LDF’s election committee chairman M Vijayakumar said the Congress leader’s comments “expose his approach towards the working class”.

But Tharoor on Saturday came out with another Tweet, saying that his readers had misread his sentence and the whole problem with the Opposition candidates, who could not understand his English.

Using the screenshot of a page of Olam online dictionary, he demonstrates squeamishly also means frank or offended.

Ridiculing his critics, he also uses the screen shot of another Olam page to show that ‘Order Delivered’ means Kalpana Prasavichu (Malayalam word by word by translation which means Kalpana gave birth).