New Delhi: Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor claims that many Bharatiya Janata Party leaders had reached out to him to regret the comment made by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi against his wife Sunanda Pushkar. 'A very very large number of BJP people, including some former ministers, reached out to me saying they regretted the deplorable conduct of one of their own,' the newly-elected minister told Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate.