Congress MP Shashi Tharoor shared photo of Bangladeshi couple and thanked them for helping him to get an Uber in the middle of the busy London street on Saturday night.
Tharoor was trying to hail a cab outside the British Library for around 45 mintues on Saturday evening.
A Bangladeshi couple booked an Uber for him after several cars ignored the MP.
The pair, identified as Irfat and Azmain, was out celebrating their first wedding anniversary on that night.
Waited 45 minutes outside @britishlibrary for a cab as Saturday-night traffic whizzed by. A helpful young Bangladeshi couple, out celebrating their first wedding anniversary, stopped by for a pic & solved my problem by summoning an @Uber. Thanks Irfat & Azmain! pic.twitter.com/ujYDHyzE1X
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) June 11, 2022
Shashi Tharoor wrote on Twitter: “Waited 45 minutes outside @britishlibrary for a cab as Saturday-night traffic whizzed by. A helpful young Bangladeshi couple, out celebrating their first wedding anniversary, stopped by for a pic & solved my problem by summoning an @Uber. Thanks Irfat & Azmain!”
Following the tweet, user suggested that the MP should’ve installed Uber on his phone before his London trip.
The tweet has now collected over 8,000 likes and close to 300 retweets.