"shashi-tharoor"

Tharoor said that PM Modi should share his anguish with all the members of the Parliament and why the government has not worked so far.

Shashi Tharoor also said that he was in favour of renaming of places named after "obscure Brits" and name them after Indians

Three-time Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's growing popularity in the state has apparently left his fellow party leaders worried.

New Delhi: Congress presidential poll candidate Shashi Tharoor‘s team has written to the party’s chief election authority, flagging “extremely serious irregularities” in the conduct of the election in Uttar Pradesh and demanded that all votes from the state be deemed invalid, sources said. Tharoor’s campaign team has also raised “serious issues” in the conduct of […]

At the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) headquarters Gandhi Bhavan in Hyderabad, leaders queued up to cast their votes.

Voting will be conducted across all state and union territory offices from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. About 67 booths have been set up, according to the party's Central Election Authority (CEA).

In AICC also there will be a booth, especially for all senior leaders, working committee members and all those whose identity card is from a different state but are staying in Delhi. If they write to us that they want to vote in Delhi then we will make arrangements here as well, they can also vote here in AICC.

As the fight for the top post of the Congress has begun, Shashi Tharoor seems to have won the hearts many, but those do not find a place in the voters list and that's where Malikarjuna Kharge, who has now got the tag of the being the 'official' candidate will help him.

Thiruvananthapuram: As the campaign for the Congress President post heats up, with the rival candidates all embarking on a canvassing trip to various states, Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday said that he is not expecting the votes from senior leaders. Speaking to the media here, he said he does not expect votes from the big leaders […]

Calling Congress presidential candidate Mallikarjun Kharge a 'Telangana Bidda', TPCC president A Revanth Reddy said a few local leaders recommending his candidature should be taken in a ‘positive’ way.

The guidelines says that Pradesh Returning Officer (PRO) will be the Polling Officer of their respective PCCs and shall be responsible for keeping order at the polling stations and to see that the election is fairly conducted.

New Delhi: Former Jharkhand minister KN Tripathi’s nomination for the Congress presidential poll was rejected on Saturday, setting up a contest between party leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor. The three had filed nominations on Friday, the last day of the process. Addressing a press conference at the Congress headquarters here, AICC Central Election Authority […]

Speaking to the media, Singh said, "Kharge is our senior and I have told him that I will be your proposer and my commitment is towards the Congress and the Nehru-Gandhi family."

New Delhi: Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Thursday joined the race for the post of Congress President. “Today I have come here to collect the nomination form and will possibly file it tomorrow,” Singh said outside his residence here today. The former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh met with Rahul Gandhi in Kerala at the […]

Senior Congress leader and MP Shashi Tharoor will file a nomination for the post of party President on September 30, as per sources.

Thiruvananthapuram: The ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ could achieve both “Bharat jodo” and “Congress jodo” as it could also unite Congressmen and women across the country around the party’s values and ideals as well as service to the people, senior leader Shashi Tharoor said on Tuesday. Tharoor, who is said to be contemplating running for the post […]

Twitter officials were asked questions by the panel led by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Friday. The micro-blogging site also denied any data leak by the company.

New Delhi: Advocates of national integration waived entertainment tax for ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’ while the “abettors of disintegration and disharmony” waive it for ‘The Kashmir Files’, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said on Tuesday. He stressed that tax incentives reflect the direction in which the government wants society to go. ‘The Kashmir Files’, which has found […]

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and member of G-23 group Ghulam Nabi Azad met party interim president Sonia Gandhi at her residence on Friday. Earlier, G-23 leaders, who have been calling for sweeping reforms in the grand old party, met on Wednesday to discuss the party’s debacle in the recently concluded Assembly elections in five […]

Bengaluru (Karnataka): Stating that Congress is a perennial party and is deeply rooted in the minds of people, senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily on Friday said that that the Congressmen should change their attitude in order to bring it back to power in the country. The statement from Moily came after the dissident leaders […]