Sunanda Pushkar is in news these days for her closeness to Indian Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor. Suanda Pushkar has been seen with Shashi Tharoor at various social gatherings and parties recently, here are Sunanda Pushkar’s pictures and photos. She has been introduced as “Tharoor’s friend from Canada” on various occasions.
Sunanda, who is in her 40s, runs a spa in Dubai. She also holds an executive’s post with an infrastructure company owned by the Emirate government. She has also worked with advertising firms, a travel agency in Dubai as well as with an IT firm in Toronto. Tharoor has acknowledged that he knows her very well. There is growing speculation that she’s engaged to the junior Foreign Minister but there has been no official confirmation of that yet.
Sunanda is said to be belonging to Sopore in the Kashmir Valley and her father is a retired Lt Colonel.
Sunanda Pushkar is at the centre of the Kochi IPL franchise storm. There are allegations that Tharoor used her as a front to collect Rs 70 crores for helping the Kochi owners get their IPL team. Rendezvous Sports World leads the consortium that bought the Kochi team.
The group has offered a staunch defense of its decision to give away equity worth Rs 70 crores to Pushkar. It says that she is a Sales and Marketing Expert who knows the Kerala and Middle East market well and deserves to be rewarded for the expertise she offers to the consortium.