‘Received’t Base My Stand On Different Contenders’: Shashi Tharoor To News18 On Lok Sabha Battle | N18VTrained to barter disaster as a former UN under-secretary-general and diplomat, Shashi Tharoor will probably be preventing Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekar — BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala — for his fourth time period.In 2004, when Tharoor took the ballot plunge, it was to make use of his stronger vocabulary rigorously than being within the minefields of Bosnia. However he managed to not solely defeat the then reigning champions however continued to carry on to the Lok Sabha seat regardless of the Left giving a tricky battle to him, and infighting from the Congress the place even at present many think about him to be an outsider and maverick.Tharoor misplaced the Congress presidential election towards Mallikarjun Kharge in 2022 as a result of he was not the favorite with a lot of his occasion colleagues who additionally labelled him as a “traitor”. However he put up an honest battle by securing 1,072 votes. He’s additionally not trusted by many inside his occasion, particularly these from Kerala, due to his frequent praising of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s insurance policies.
