After attacking Rajiv Chandrashekhar's Thiruvananthapuram base, has Shashi Tharoor finally got a challenge?
Thiruvananthapuram: A battle royal is underway within the prestigious Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency with all three political fronts gearing up, however the contest price watching may very well be between sitting MP Shashi Tharoor and BJP's Rajiv Chandrashekhar.
Final week, the BJP had declared Union Minister of State Rajiv Chandrashekhar as its candidate, who arrived right here on Monday night time and was given a heat welcome by get together employees. The minister was pushed from the airport to the middle of the capital metropolis in a convoy of tons of of autos.
The CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Entrance has introduced in veteran CPI chief Paniyan Raveendran, a former Thiruvananthapuram MP.
Raveendran had received the by-election from the identical seat in 2005 after the demise of the sitting member, former chief minister and veteran CPI chief PK Vasudevan Nair.
Congress has not but introduced its record of candidates, however there isn’t a doubt who it may very well be, as it’s sure that Shashi Tharoor can be defending his seat for the fourth consecutive time.
Former Beneath-Secretary-General on the United Nations, Shashi Tharoor was a shock alternative when he flew to India and after assembly high officers of the then Congress, secured the get together ticket to contest the 2009 Lok Sabha elections from Thiruvananthapuram.
Since then he has accomplished a hat-trick of wins and the one robust time he needed to face was the premature demise of his spouse Sunanda Pushkar in an expensive lodge in Delhi in 2014.
Within the 2019 elections, he received by a margin of 99,989 votes, whereas in 2014 the margin was 15,470 and in his first election in 2009, the margin was 99,998 votes.
Minister Rajiv Chandrasekhar, although a Malayali and at all times based mostly out of Bengaluru, isn’t any stranger to Keralites. His title was linked to BPL TV after he married the daughter of the corporate's founder. He was a part of the then main electronics firm from 1994 till he offered his stake in 2005.
Soon after arriving right here on Monday night time, the Union Minister launched the marketing campaign marketing campaign and stated his focus can be to remodel the state into a significant IT hub.
“Even though the capital city had the first IT park, Technopark, it has not reached the level where it should have been,” Chandrashekhar stated.
This election goes to be extra of a conflict of personalities between Congress and BJP.
By the way, within the 2019 elections, the BJP completed runner-up right here, whereas it needed to accept third place within the remaining 19 seats within the state.
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