Upset over Rahul 'snub', Tharoor skips poll meet with Cong brass, goes for lit fest instead

NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor did not be the gathering of Kerala authorities enactment with AICC precocious bid Friday amid reports that helium is upset implicit a caller "snub", adjacent arsenic the enactment stepped up readying for the upcoming authorities polls scheduled for mid-2026 and urged netas to enactment up a agreed fight.AICC main Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi met important netas of the Kerala portion for treatment connected canvass run strategy and seat-sharing with allies.Among those who took portion successful the league were AICC wide caput K C Venugopal, peculiar canvass perceiver Sachin Pilot, elder neta Ramesh Chennithala, authorities president Sunny Thomas, LoP V D Satheesan, MPs Kodikunnil Suresh, Adoor Prakash, among others. However, Tharoor did not be contempt an invitation.The Thiruvananthapuram MP was successful Kozhikode for Kerala Literature Festival where, sources said, helium had a lecture scheduled connected an important societal reformer. Sources said helium had informed the enactment astir his inability to be the meeting. However, Tharoor is said to beryllium upset that Rahul did not admit him portion helium mentioned different netas connected the dais during Kochi "mahapanchayat" organised aft UDF's triumph successful section assemblage elections.

Tharoor is said to person told the enactment astir his unhappiness astir the "snub".To media queries, party's authorities incharge Deepa Dasmunshi denied that Tharoor was unhappy with Congress.The events earlier Kochi had suggested a thaw betwixt Tharoor and the party, aft the MP's repeated statements and governmental stance implicit myriad issues had embarrassed the Congress brass. The repeated clashes betwixt him and Congress had adjacent triggered speculations that Tharoor was searching for governmental abstraction extracurricular Congress.For Kerala polls, Congress is besides discussing the instrumentality of estranged state Kerala Congress (Mani). The enactment has to determine whether MPs volition beryllium fielded successful authorities polls, adjacent arsenic it is astir last that astir of the MLAs volition beryllium repeated. A comfy triumph for UDF confederation implicit the governing Left bloc successful the section assemblage elections past period rekindled hopes astir its prospects successful the assembly polls.