Shashi Tharoor-Sunanda Pushkar marriage on Sunday

Former Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor will tie the knot with his fiance Sunanda Pushkar in a quiet ceremony at his ancestral home in Elavanchery village in Kerala’s Palakkad district on Sunday.

Wedding preparations are in full swing at the 200-year-old ancestral home, known as Mundarath House.

Tharoor’s early morning marriage ceremony will be attended by close family and friends and then the couple is expected to leave for his constituency Thiruvananthapuram for the reception on August 23.

Sunanda Pushkar, the daughter of a retired Army colonel, hails from Jammu and Kashmir.

Tharoor resigned as a minister over allegations of corruption in winning a cricket league franchise in the Indian Premier League.

The controversy surfaced when Modi revealed on his Twitter feed that Tharoor had advised the IPL management against disclosing the name of Dubai-based businessperson Sunanda Pushkar, known to be close to Tharoor.

Following the controversy, Tharoor tendered his resignation on April 18. Modi was later sacked as IPL Commissioner by the Indian cricket board.

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