"Shashi Tharoor Is No Loser": Twitter After Congress Poll Results
NDTV
Soon after the poll result was declared, Shashi Tharoor called on Mallikarjun Kharge at his residence to congratulate him.
Shashi Tharoor may have lost the Congress president election, but for social media users, he is a winner. After the results of the polls were declared, Twitter users thanked Mr Tharoor for making Congress workers proud. The Member of Parliament (MP) from Thiruvananthapuram lost the election to Mallikarjun Kharge, who will become the first non-Gandhi Congress president in 24 years. While Mr Kharge received 7,897 votes, Mr Tharoor polled 1,072 votes out of the total 9,385. After the results were announced, Mr Kharge said he would "try my best to stand my ground". 🙏 https://t.co/einFx9SFc1
Many Twitter users congratulated Mr Tharoor for throwing his hat in the ring. Among them is former Union minister Ashwani Kumar who said Mr Tharoor is not a loser.
"For Shashi Tharoor, one may say at this hour: Only a fighter falls while fighting in the battlefield, those kids who crawl on their knees will never know what it's like. Shashi Tharoor is no loser," he said in the tweet.
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