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Other headlines: Israeli director Nadav Lapid stood by his comments on ‘The Kashmir Files’, and the first phase of Gujarat polls registered a turnout of 59.24%.
Accused of stoking factionalism, the Thiruvananthapuram MP says: “I wanted to play as a striker in the forward line. But some people want me in the reserve bench.”
The 12 per cent vote share received by Shashi Tharoor shows that there is a considerable section in the party seeking organisational changes.
A look at the life of Shashi Tharoor who lost the Congress presidency to Mallikarjun Kharge.
New Delhi, Oct. 19 (PTI): He lost the election but Shashi Tharoor managed to score many a political point during his campaign for Congress president, a contest he lost to veteran party colleague Mallikarjun Kharge who was favoured to win. The author, wordsmith, former UN diplomat and social media pioneer with 8.3 million followers on Twitter demonstrated during the last few weeks that he is quite the opposite of a quockerwodger’, a politically loaded term for a wooden puppet he introduced into our lexicon, and is instead independent minded, making moves on his own terms. Tharoor’s ...