Kochi: Exposing spat with Congress, popular party leader Shashi Tharoor, MP, has warned to explore other options before him.
Expressing concern over the party facing a leadership crisis in Kerala, Tharoor warned that the party would lose if things continued like this.
The Congress-led front partners are not happy with the affairs in the party leading to setbacks not only at regional level but also at national level, Asianet quoted his interview in an English daily.
Tharoor’s outburst is his apparent reaction over the national Congress leadership refusing to address his grievances.
Tharoor’s meeting with Congress leadership led by Rahul Gandhi was arranged in the backdrop of his public remarks praising the Prime Minister’s US trip and the Left government in Kerala economic policy.
Rahul not only declined to address Tharoor’s grievances, but also refused to make any commitments on giving any specific roles for him in the party, according to the reports said.
Tharoor’s annoyance over the party flushing him out of the All India Professional Congress formed by him was also not addressed.
Tharoor is also upset over the party not allowing him to take part in important debates in parliament and not assigning him any key role in Kerala.
Tharoor said he was elected four times by the people who had given him the freedom to air his opinion.
Many surveys have found that he had gathered votes other than that of the party supporters.
Tharoor said he took the plunge into politics at the advices of Sonia Gandhi, late premier Manmohan Singh, Ramesh Chennithala,
Shashi Tharoor, 69, is a former diplomat and is Member of Parliament from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, since 2009.
He was Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and unsuccessfully ran for the post of Secretary-General in 2006.
Born in London and raised in Mumbai, Tharoor studied in St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, in 1975. Tharoor was a career official at the United Nations from 1978 to 2007.
Tharoor began his political career by joining the Indian National Congress in 2009 and won from Thiruvananthapuram
Lok Sabha seat in Kerala.
