After a neck-and-neck fight, Congress incumbent MP Shashi Tharoor has won Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat against BJP's Rajeev Chandrasekhar for a record fourth term.
Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Rajeev Chandrasekhar is leading from the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat in Kerala while veteran Congress leader Shashi Tharoor is trailing from his bastion, as per leads.
Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Monday sharply reacted to Congress leader Shashi Tharoor's remark on the exit polls, saying Shashi Tharoor should start an English training institute and Rahul Gandhi should start a career in a gym.
After the exit polls predicted a third straight win for the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Lok Sabha elections, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said that the exit polls are laughable, asserting that INDIA bloc will get 295 seats .
Distancing himself from the allegations after Delhi Customs detained two people, one of whom claimed to be his assistant, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, has said that he is "shocked" by the news, adding that the man was a part-time employee.
"First CM Secy involved in Gold smuggling, now Cong MP "aide"/PA detained for Gold smuggling. CPM and Cong - both INDI alliance partners - alliance of gold smugglers," Chandrasekhar said on X.
Shashi Tharoor said, "If we look at the figures, the BJP does not have a leg to stand on. The Congress takes pride that from 2004 to 2014, more than 140 million people came out of poverty. World Bank, United Nations and other international institutions agreed with this."
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday said that sometimes he wonders whether the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would be able to win even 200 seats in these Lok Sabha elections.
Ravi Kishan, who is the BJP's candidate from Gorakhpur, hit out Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, calling him an "angrez aadmi" after the latter predicted that it would be difficult for the BJP to even cross 300 seats in the Lok Sabha elections.
Questioning the Centre's position on China, Congress candidate Shashi Tharoor on Monday said the Bharatiya Janata Party's position on Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) is only an "election tactics" adding that it must also focus on what is happening on the Chinese borders.