'400 paar' a joke, '300 paar' impossible, '200 paar' challenge for BJP: Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor predicts BJP will lose majority in Lok Sabha polls, claiming '400 paar' is a joke

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP's) claim of '400 paar' is a joke, '300 paar' is impossible and even '200 paar' may be a challenge for it in the Lok Sabha polls, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has said, asserting that it is a "foregone conclusion" the ruling party would lose its majority in the Lower House.

In an interaction with PTI editors at the agency's headquarters in New Delhi, Mr. Tharoor also claimed the BJP will draw a blank in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, and will do worse than its 2019 performance in the South.

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Mr. Tharoor, who was locked in a three-way contest with Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar of the BJP and P. Raveendran of the Communist Party of India (CPI) in Thiruvananthapuram where polling took place on April 26, said he is looking at a "very comfortable win".

If he emerges victorious, it will be a fourth consecutive win for the author-politician from Thiruvananthapuram, who is the longest-serving MP from the constituency.

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Back in Delhi after a nearly two month high voltage campaign in Thiruvananthapuram, the Congress Working Committee member will now canvass in other parts of the country, being a sought after campaigner due to his oratory skills and celebrity status.