Kanwal Sibal asks 'Why?' as Shashi Tharoor professes love for Urdu 'Happy Diwali' greeting

On vember 14, people around world celebrated festival of lights -- Diwali with politicians across party lines wishing countrymen on auspicious festival. On Friday evening, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor took to Twitter to wish people ‘Jashn-e-Chiraagh’, using im of a TV anchor. Tharoor said anchor has come up with an "Urdu greeting for Diwali — “Jashn-e-Chiraagh Mubarak!” I love it. Spre light!"

'Why love it?'

Reacting to this, Former Indian Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal who is bror of Congress leer Kapil Sibal questioned need to change form of greeting and have an Urdu version? Responding to Tharoor, Kapil Sibal's bror said, "Why love it? Deepawali has a meaning rooted in civilisational consciousness. Jashn-e-chiraagh has such contation."

Soon after Tharoor posted  tweet, several netizens realised that im being used by Shashi Tharoor was morphed. However, anchor Sahar Zaman said that it was t Tharoor that h morphed im and shared it on Twitter, but it was her who h decided to use im to wish her family and friends on “Jashn-e-Chiraagh”.

Ayodhya lights 6 lakh diyas to break record

Uttar Presh government on Friday went all out in marking homecoming of Lord Ram to this holy town mythical event in 'treta yug' on which festival of Diwali is based. Along way, organisers broke a world record. As dusk fell, volunteers lit up over six lakh earn lamps lined up on Saryu riverbank.

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A team from Guinness World Records was present to see if it me it to ir book. Hours later, team leer Nishchal Barot gave final count as 6,06,569 'diyas', telling PTI that it was largest display of oil lamps in world. An organiser said about 8,000 volunteers, drawn from a local college and NGOs, were involved in feat.

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