Thiruvananthapuram member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor, star campaigner for the Congress-led United Democratic Front in the Kerala assembly elections, speaks to Shobha Warrier about all things political.
Ever since Congress Member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor lost the central minister’s post, he has been spending most of his time in Thiruvananthapuram, his constituency. He has also been meeting the people who elected him by a huge margin.
It is true that the educated middle class and the young of the city are enamoured of his charm and the intellectual aura that he has.
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It was in the evening when Shashi Tharoor was campaigning in the suburbs of Thiruvananthapuram that I interviewed him, travelling with him in his car from one assembly constituency to another.
Unfortunately, the constituency he was given by the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee that day was in the interiors where not many have heard of his United Nations tenure or the many popular books penned by him. All they did was shout ‘Shashi Tharoor zindabad’ and laugh at his jibes at the ruling Left Democratic Front!
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