India, Dec. 10 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday issued a clarification on receiving 'Veer Savarkar Award' and said that he only learned about it while he was in Kerala yesterday.

Tharoor said that he was neither aware of the award nor had he accepted it, adding that there is no question of him attending the ceremony on Delhi on Wednesday.

Tharoor also said that he came to know that he has been awarded this accolade through media reports.

"In the absence of clarifications about the nature of the award, the organization presenting it or any other contextual details, the question of my attending the event today or accepting the award does not arise," Tharoor wrote in a post on X.

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