Shashi Tharoor interview | ‘Only guarantee we have got from Modi is that his promises will all be broken’ Premium
The Hindu
Shashi Tharoor is seeking a fourth term in Lower House from Thiruvananthapuram constituency in Kerala in 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Locked in a tight electoral fight with BJP candidate Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the Central Working Committee member of Congress says NDA is in ‘panic mode’
Shashi Tharoor, writer, former United Nations diplomat and sitting MP from Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency, is seeking a fourth term in the Lower House from Thiruvananthapuram in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Mr. Tharoor is a Central Working Committee (CWC) member of the Congress party.
He has been locked in a tight electoral fight, bitter war of words and retaliatory legal proceedings with the BJP candidate, Rajeev Chandrasekhar. The Left’s Pannian Raveendran is the third major candidate in the fray in the Thiruvananthapuram constituency.
The Hindu hopped on Mr. Tharoor’s campaign vehicle at Olathanni near Neyyattinkara in the constituency for a chat on his hopes, promises and assessment of the Lok Sabha elections in his constituency, in Kerala and across India. He says the BJP-led alliance (NDA) is “in panic mode and will struggle to touch even 272, leave alone 300 or 400.”
Edited excerpts from the interview.
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