By means of PTI
NEW DELHI: By means of submitting his nomination as Congress president on Friday, Shashi Tharoor has proven he’s no ‘quockerwodger’ – a phrase he presented into our lexicon – appearing at the directions of an influential 3rd celebration.
Actually, the bestseller creator, wordsmith, former UN diplomat and social media ‘pioneer’ with 8.3 million fans has demonstrated he’s reasonably the other of a ‘quockerwodger’, a politically loaded time period for a wood puppet, and is as a substitute independent-minded, making strikes on his personal phrases.
As hypothesis over who could be within the race for the Congress president fixed and maximum of his celebration colleagues demurred, Tharoor used to be the primary off the block to claim he would contest.
The 66-year-old filed his nomination on the place of business of the Congress’ central election authority Madhusudan Mistry on Friday, the remaining day of the nomination procedure for the highest submit within the celebration lengthy ruled via the Gandhi circle of relatives.
Tharoor, observed as a revolt and one of the most crew of 23 leaders who wrote to Sonia Gandhi in 2020 in search of large-scale reforms, now takes on veteran Mallikarjun Kharge, extensively observed to be sponsored via senior leaders and tipped to win.
The longer the Congress waits to get its act in combination, the better the chance of a gentle erosion of our conventional vote financial institution and their gravitation in opposition to our political competition.
“Which is why I’ve lengthy been an outspoken suggest without spending a dime and clear elections throughout the celebration, together with for the submit of president,” the forthright former Union minister informed PTI.
Those that have {followed} Tharoor’s profession trail say two issues — he is filled with surprises and up for a combat with out being deterred via the percentages stacked in opposition to him.
READ HERE | Congress will have to stand for trade, no longer stunned status quo backing Kharge: Tharoor
Born in London in 1956, Tharoor graduated with an honours in historical past from Delhi’s prestigious St Stephen’s Faculty the place he used to be additionally the president of the coed’s union.
He did his masters from the Fletcher Faculty of Regulation and International relations, Medford, US, and finished a PhD from there in 1978.
Defying the baby-kisser stereotype, Tharoor went directly to have a outstanding profession within the UN.
All through his stint on the UN, he shouldered a number of key tasks in peace-keeping after the Chilly Battle and serving as senior adviser to the secretary-general, along with his position as under-secretary total for Communications and Public Knowledge.
Tharoor, who used to be selected as India’s reliable candidate for the submit of secretary total, completed 2d of 7 applicants within the 2006 election, which used to be received via former South Korean diplomat and flesh presser Ban Ki-moon.
His abdomen for a combat in opposition to daunting odds used to be possibly first displayed in that electoral combat.
3 years later, he retired as a world civil servant and made a lateral access into politics in 2009 to be elected as MP from Thiruvananthapuram for the primary time on a Congress price ticket.
Although his political adventure started at 53, he took massive strides as a political candidate after successful the Lok Sabha election.
His candidacy used to be antagonistic via a bit of leaders of the Kerala Congress who considered him as an interloper.
Tharoor, alternatively, received via a at ease margin over his nearest opponent from the Communist Birthday celebration of India.
ALSO READ | Mallikarjun Kharge, a Gandhi circle of relatives loyalist poised to be 2d Congress leader from Karnataka
He used to be appointed Union minister of state for Exterior Affairs within the Congress-led United Modern Alliance (UPA) executive.
Tharoor is a pioneer in the usage of social media as an tool of political interplay.
He used to be India’s most-followed baby-kisser on Twitter until 2013 when he used to be overtaken via present High Minister Narendra Modi.
The frequently outspoken baby-kisser, making headlines for his politics and every so often additionally for throwing little-used phrases that experience his Twitter fans attaining for the dictionary, reveals himself on the centre of controversy now and again.
In 2009, for example, within the early days of his political profession, he made a remark about travelling ‘livestock elegance’ for which he needed to apologise.
He used to be additionally accused of getting a questionable passion in a cricket staff from the Kerala town of Kochi whilst he used to be a minister.
He resigned from the MEA in April 2010.
His private lifestyles noticed a sad flip in January 2014 when his spouse Sunanda Pushkar used to be discovered useless in a collection of a luxurious resort right here.
The couple used to be staying within the resort as Tharoor’s reliable bungalow of Tharoor used to be being renovated on the time.
Tharoor used to be later charged beneath segment 498A (husband or relative of husband of a girl subjecting her to cruelty) and 306 (abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code via Delhi Police.
A Delhi courtroom discharged him within the case remaining 12 months.
The 12 months of his spouse’s dying used to be additionally when he received a 2d Lok Sabha time period from Thiruvananthapuram, swimming in opposition to the tide of an enormous Narendra Modi wave.
Alternatively, his victory margin got here down from a staggering 99,998 votes in 2009 to over 15,000.
In 2019, he received the seat for a 3rd time, defeating his major rival and BJP-NDA candidate Kummanam Rajashekharan via a margin of 99,989 votes.
In July 2020, Tharoor crossed a milestone via turning into the longest-serving parliamentarian representing the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency.
Tharoor broke the document of Congress’ A Charles, who represented the constituency for 4,047 days from 1984 to 1991.
An energetic parliamentarian and among the most efficient orators within the Area, Tharoor has additionally been chairperson of the Parliamentary Status Committee on Exterior Affairs and is these days Chair of the parliamentary panel on data and generation and communications.
Alternatively, it’s been reported that the federal government has made up our minds to take the chair-ship of the panel from the Congress.
All the time identified to talk his thoughts, the ‘G 23’ chief has reiterated again and again that his sole goal of being a few of the signatories to the letter to Sonia Gandhi used to be reform of the celebration.
Alternatively, he has been handled via many within the celebration as a type of a revolt with many Gandhi loyalists attacking him every now and then.
Tharoor has been a prolific creator and authored about 23 books, together with ‘The Nice Indian Novel’, ‘An Generation of Darkness’, ‘Why I Am A Hindu’ and ‘The Paradoxical High Minister’.
He has additionally received a number of awards and bestowed with prestigious honours such because the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the Highest E-book of the 12 months within the Eurasian Area for ‘The Nice Indian Novel’, Spain’s Commander of the Order of Charles III via King of Spain, the Sahitya Akademi Award for his ebook ‘An Generation of Darkness’ in addition to France’s Chevalier de l. a. Legion d’Honneur.
Tharoor’s hope within the polls is best possible summed up via the strains of Urdu poet Majrooh Sultanpuri which the MP had tweeted this week – “Major akela hello chala tha janib-e-manzil magar log saath aate gaye aur karvaan banta gaya (I started my adventure on my own, other people joined in and the caravan stored on rising).”
NEW DELHI: By means of submitting his nomination as Congress president on Friday, Shashi Tharoor has proven he’s no ‘quockerwodger’ – a phrase he presented into our lexicon – appearing at the directions of an influential 3rd celebration.
Actually, the bestseller creator, wordsmith, former UN diplomat and social media ‘pioneer’ with 8.3 million fans has demonstrated he’s reasonably the other of a ‘quockerwodger’, a politically loaded time period for a wood puppet, and is as a substitute independent-minded, making strikes on his personal phrases.
As hypothesis over who could be within the race for the Congress president fixed and maximum of his celebration colleagues demurred, Tharoor used to be the primary off the block to claim he would contest.
The 66-year-old filed his nomination on the place of business of the Congress’ central election authority Madhusudan Mistry on Friday, the remaining day of the nomination procedure for the highest submit within the celebration lengthy ruled via the Gandhi circle of relatives.
Tharoor, observed as a revolt and one of the most crew of 23 leaders who wrote to Sonia Gandhi in 2020 in search of large-scale reforms, now takes on veteran Mallikarjun Kharge, extensively observed to be sponsored via senior leaders and tipped to win.
The longer the Congress waits to get its act in combination, the better the chance of a gentle erosion of our conventional vote financial institution and their gravitation in opposition to our political competition.
“Which is why I’ve lengthy been an outspoken suggest without spending a dime and clear elections throughout the celebration, together with for the submit of president,” the forthright former Union minister informed PTI.
Those that have {followed} Tharoor’s profession trail say two issues — he is filled with surprises and up for a combat with out being deterred via the percentages stacked in opposition to him.
READ HERE | Congress will have to stand for trade, no longer stunned status quo backing Kharge: Tharoor
Born in London in 1956, Tharoor graduated with an honours in historical past from Delhi’s prestigious St Stephen’s Faculty the place he used to be additionally the president of the coed’s union.
He did his masters from the Fletcher Faculty of Regulation and International relations, Medford, US, and finished a PhD from there in 1978.
Defying the baby-kisser stereotype, Tharoor went directly to have a outstanding profession within the UN.
All through his stint on the UN, he shouldered a number of key tasks in peace-keeping after the Chilly Battle and serving as senior adviser to the secretary-general, along with his position as under-secretary total for Communications and Public Knowledge.
Tharoor, who used to be selected as India’s reliable candidate for the submit of secretary total, completed 2d of 7 applicants within the 2006 election, which used to be received via former South Korean diplomat and flesh presser Ban Ki-moon.
His abdomen for a combat in opposition to daunting odds used to be possibly first displayed in that electoral combat.
3 years later, he retired as a world civil servant and made a lateral access into politics in 2009 to be elected as MP from Thiruvananthapuram for the primary time on a Congress price ticket.
Although his political adventure started at 53, he took massive strides as a political candidate after successful the Lok Sabha election.
His candidacy used to be antagonistic via a bit of leaders of the Kerala Congress who considered him as an interloper.
Tharoor, alternatively, received via a at ease margin over his nearest opponent from the Communist Birthday celebration of India.
ALSO READ | Mallikarjun Kharge, a Gandhi circle of relatives loyalist poised to be 2d Congress leader from Karnataka
He used to be appointed Union minister of state for Exterior Affairs within the Congress-led United Modern Alliance (UPA) executive.
Tharoor is a pioneer in the usage of social media as an tool of political interplay.
He used to be India’s most-followed baby-kisser on Twitter until 2013 when he used to be overtaken via present High Minister Narendra Modi.
The frequently outspoken baby-kisser, making headlines for his politics and every so often additionally for throwing little-used phrases that experience his Twitter fans attaining for the dictionary, reveals himself on the centre of controversy now and again.
In 2009, for example, within the early days of his political profession, he made a remark about travelling ‘livestock elegance’ for which he needed to apologise.
He used to be additionally accused of getting a questionable passion in a cricket staff from the Kerala town of Kochi whilst he used to be a minister.
He resigned from the MEA in April 2010.
His private lifestyles noticed a sad flip in January 2014 when his spouse Sunanda Pushkar used to be discovered useless in a collection of a luxurious resort right here.
The couple used to be staying within the resort as Tharoor’s reliable bungalow of Tharoor used to be being renovated on the time.
Tharoor used to be later charged beneath segment 498A (husband or relative of husband of a girl subjecting her to cruelty) and 306 (abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code via Delhi Police.
A Delhi courtroom discharged him within the case remaining 12 months.
The 12 months of his spouse’s dying used to be additionally when he received a 2d Lok Sabha time period from Thiruvananthapuram, swimming in opposition to the tide of an enormous Narendra Modi wave.
Alternatively, his victory margin got here down from a staggering 99,998 votes in 2009 to over 15,000.
In 2019, he received the seat for a 3rd time, defeating his major rival and BJP-NDA candidate Kummanam Rajashekharan via a margin of 99,989 votes.
In July 2020, Tharoor crossed a milestone via turning into the longest-serving parliamentarian representing the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency.
Tharoor broke the document of Congress’ A Charles, who represented the constituency for 4,047 days from 1984 to 1991.
An energetic parliamentarian and among the most efficient orators within the Area, Tharoor has additionally been chairperson of the Parliamentary Status Committee on Exterior Affairs and is these days Chair of the parliamentary panel on data and generation and communications.
Alternatively, it’s been reported that the federal government has made up our minds to take the chair-ship of the panel from the Congress.
All the time identified to talk his thoughts, the ‘G 23’ chief has reiterated again and again that his sole goal of being a few of the signatories to the letter to Sonia Gandhi used to be reform of the celebration.
Alternatively, he has been handled via many within the celebration as a type of a revolt with many Gandhi loyalists attacking him every now and then.
Tharoor has been a prolific creator and authored about 23 books, together with ‘The Nice Indian Novel’, ‘An Generation of Darkness’, ‘Why I Am A Hindu’ and ‘The Paradoxical High Minister’.
He has additionally received a number of awards and bestowed with prestigious honours such because the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the Highest E-book of the 12 months within the Eurasian Area for ‘The Nice Indian Novel’, Spain’s Commander of the Order of Charles III via King of Spain, the Sahitya Akademi Award for his ebook ‘An Generation of Darkness’ in addition to France’s Chevalier de l. a. Legion d’Honneur.
Tharoor’s hope within the polls is best possible summed up via the strains of Urdu poet Majrooh Sultanpuri which the MP had tweeted this week – “Major akela hello chala tha janib-e-manzil magar log saath aate gaye aur karvaan banta gaya (I started my adventure on my own, other people joined in and the caravan stored on rising).”