Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has replied to Union Minister, Rajeev Chandrashekhar after the latter had sent a legal defamation notice against the former.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) directed the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to verify any mismatch in affidavit details submitted by Union Minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar, the BJP contesting candidate from Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat, sources said.
Union Minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar launched a crowdsourcing programme on Saturday and said that this election is not merely a contest but a mission to propel Thiruvananthapuram forward, enabling it to reap the benefits of Prime Minister Modi's governance schemes.
Union Minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar said that the Kerala Congress and Left parties are doing just dramma of the outrage against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's arrest.
The union minister whom BJP has named from Thiruvananthapuram, while speaking to ANI, said that the candidates fielded against him "are more interested in fighting for the Muslim vote".
"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.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded Union Minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar while CPM-led LDF has fielded CPI leader Pannyan Raveendran from the constituency, who had won it in 2005.
Soon after the BJP's announcement of his candidature from Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram constituency for the Lok Sabha polls, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar on Saturday said that he was honoured and happy.
Following the death of a student of the Government Veterinary College at Pookode in Kerala's Wayanad, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar on Friday lashed out at the state government led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) asking it to "leave children out of their violent pol
Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Rajeev Chandrashekhar on Wednesday hit out at the Congress party over pro-pak slogans raised by the supporters of elected Rajya Sabha MP Nasser Hussein.
New Delhi [India], February 27: Aligned with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat and commemorating the 10th anniversary of the 'Make in India' initiative, India's manufacturing sector has registered unprecedented success, with FY22 exports soaring to USD 418 billion.