THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi officially commissioned the Vizhinjam International Seaport on Friday here in the presence of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, whose presence at the inauguration, Modi said, will give “sleepless nights” to many.

Modi also referred to Vijayan as a “pillar” of the opposition INDIA bloc.

The Prime Minister told Vijayan and Tharoor, who were on the dais, that their presence at the inauguration event would give “sleepless nights” to many. However, the person translating his speech did not translate it properly, and it prompted the PM to say, “the message has gone across to whom it was meant”.