It's known that senior Congress leader and parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor was on Monday severely injured during an accident at a temple in Kerala. He has since been hospitalized. "A heavy iron hook fell on my head when a temple Thulabharam scale gave way. Lots of blood but no apparent other damage. Thank God it didn’t hurt anyone around me — could have caused a very serious injury," Tharoor in the hospital.

On Tuesday, the Malayali politician lauded the "civility" of Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman when she paid a visit to him at the hospital. "Touched by the gesture of @nsitharaman, who dropped by today morning to visit me in the hospital, amid her hectic electioneering in Kerala. Civility is a rare virtue in Indian politics - great to see her practice it by example!" Tharoor tweeted out.