Shashi Tharoor | Photo Credit: Illustration: Sreejith R. Kumar Literature has often been Shashi Tharoor’s calling card, at times even more than his politics, but words have also been his Achilles heel in politics, right from the “cattle class” and “holy cows” comments in 2009. Misinterpreted or otherwise, the four-time Lok Sabha MP’s utterances and … Read more
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, right, with Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal, centre, and the UK’s Secretary of State for Business and Trade Jonathan Reynolds | Photo Credit: X/@ShashiTharoor Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor posted a selfie with Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and the U.K.’s Secretary of State for Business … Read more
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra received a glowing endorsement from her party’s Rajya Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor following the announcement that she will contest the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in Kerala after her brother, Rahul Gandhi, vacated it. Tharoor took to social media platform X, saying, “No more doubt, no more questions, here comes Priyanka.” … Read more
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Saturday exuded confidence that his party will form the next government in Mizoram. File | Photo Credit: MOORTHY RV Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Saturday exuded confidence that his party will form the next government in Mizoram. Addressing a press conference here, the Lok Sabha MP from Thiruvananthapuram … Read more
In a tweet, Shashi Tharoor said, “As the Manipur violence persists, all right-thinking Indians must ask themselves what happened to the much-vaunted good governance we had been promised.” | Photo Credit: PTI Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on May 7 said the voters of Manipur are feeling “grossly betrayed” just a year after putting the … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the flagging off ceremony of Kerala’s first Vande Bharat Express, in Thiruvananthapuram, on April 25, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi said only a strong government at the Centre could harness the power of States to spur national development. On April 25, Mr. Modi was in Thiruvananthapuram … Read more
Welcoming the recent “wave of Opposition unity”, Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said the Congress will be the de facto fulcrum around which other parties converge. He however asserted that if he were in the party leadership, he would not “crow about it” and encourage one of the smaller outfits to play the … Read more
Ahead of Wednesday’s counting of votes in the Congress presidential poll, Lok Sabha member Shashi Tharoor’s team is learnt to have sent official complaints to the party’s Central Election Authority (CEA) regarding the polling process. On Wednesday, the Congress is all set to elect a non-Gandhi party chief as it geared up for the counting … Read more
Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said this during an interaction with party delegates at party office in Srinagar Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said this during an interaction with party delegates at party office in Srinagar Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge on October 9 said his contest with Shashi Tharoor for the post of party president was aimed … Read more
Shashi Tharoor said that he never expected big leaders to support him and does not expect it even now, but at the same time he needs everyone’s backing Shashi Tharoor said that he never expected big leaders to support him and does not expect it even now, but at the same time he needs everyone’s … Read more