Work on October 2: Tharoor

AGE CORRESPONDENT With agency inputs NEW DELHI Oct. 3: Minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor said that people should work rather than enjoy a holiday on Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary. “Gandhiji said ‘work is worship’ and we enjoy holiday on his birthday,” Mr Tharoor said in a reply to a posting on the social networking site Twitter. To support his contention, Mr Tharoor cited the views of visiting Vietnamese vice-president Nguyen Thi Doan. “In V’nam, Ho Chi Minh‘s birthday is a working day and citizens are expected to put in an extra effort at work to honour him,” he said, quoting Ms Nguyen whom he met at a dinner hosted by vice-president Hamid Ansari here.

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