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Thiruvananthapuram: Congress MP and candidate from Thiruvananthapuram, Shashi Tharoor queued up outside a polling booth in the constituency as he awaited his turn to cast his vote.
Shashi Tharoor, a former UN diplomat and Congress leader will be seeking a fourth straight term from Thiruvananthapuram constituency, as he is faces a two-front contest against Union Minister of State, Rajeev Chandrashekhar and Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Panniyan Ravindran.
Tharoor, who has held the seat since 2009, is facing a challenge as the BJP has named a strong face against him. Chandrashekhar has served as the MoS for electronics, Entrepreneurship and Information Technology.
Earlier on Thursday while speaking to ANI, Tharoor appeared confident of returning to parliament.
“Elections are decided by the people. The people have conveyed very clearly to us…exactly what they feel. The trust they have placed in me three times in a row, they are prepared to place in me once more… The BJP is so desperate now, that they are scenting failure. After the first round when all the indications coming out of the voting booths were that people had turned against the BJP governments in a big way, even in the Hindi-speaking states… We’re getting the indication that the BJP is in for a very rude shock,” he had said.
