Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his statement wherein he said that the Congress had adopted the 'loot' east policy while the BJP had turned it into the 'Act East' policy, Tharoor said 'no loot is going on from the east'.
In his notice, Rajeev Chandrasekhar accuses Tharoor of disseminating patently false information among the constituents of Thiruvananthapuram, purportedly spreading misleading information regarding bribing key voters and influential figures such as Parish priests, among others.
Congress' Lok Sabha candidate from Thiruvananthapuram constituency in Kerala, Shashi Tharoor, on Wednesday accused the BJP of hijacking democracy and urged other political parties to fight together to defeat it in the coming general election.
"I've served the people of Thiruvananthapuram for 15 years. They know me and have seen my service. It's not as if I've got anything to be ashamed of in my track record. I've been consistently available and attended to all the major issues," Shashi Tharoor said.
"I don't think the BJP is going to win a single seat in Kerala. Their strongest performance has always been in Thiruvananthapuram, where they came twice. I am not expecting that they will be anything better than that this time around either. Everywhere else, we have strong candidates," Tharo
Police used tear gas to disperse protesters on the second day of the farmers' stir even as the local people suffered due to traffic jams near the borders, and the farmers' organisations said they would hold a meeting with the Central government on Thursday to discuss their demands.
On the political uncertainty in Bihar, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said on Saturday that the ultimate objective of the INDIA bloc is to change the Union government (BJP at the Centre), adding that seat-sharing is being discussed on a state-by-state basis.
Taking an apparent exception to the inauguration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya by Prime Minister Narendra Modi next month, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday questioned the latter about the 'Acche Din' promised to the people of the country.
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut in his statement said that his party workers are not going to attend the Ayodhya Ram Mandir opening ceremony.
Raut takes a jibe at the BJP government "They have an advertising system according to which they work. They are extremely good at advertising thi
"It's appropriate to protest and all of us will be at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. The INDIA alliance protest will happen everywhere tomorrow (Friday) morning in all the states because we want to show the public that if they'd run Parliament like this and won't listen to the opposition then th
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Central government's foreign policy is against the decade-old policy followed by India.
Expressing shock over the twin explosions that took place at a convention centre in Kerala, leaving one dead and several injured, Congress leader Sashi Tharoor on Sunday condemned the incident and demanded swift police action in the matter.