Tharoor wants Shatru to join Congress

December 25, 2018 16:58

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday invited Bharatiya Janata Party MP Shatrughan Sinha to join the Congress.

The two are colleagues in the Lok Sabha.

Tharoor is an MP from Thiruvananthapuram and Sinha from Patna Sahib.

Sinha was in Thiruvananthapuram to launch Tharoor's book The Paradoxical Prime Minister, Narendra Modi And His India.

Tharoor said there was 'room for a hero' like Sinha in the Congress.

In his speech, Sinha criticised the PM. Along with BJP Lok Sabha member Kirti Azad, Sinha has emerged one of the most vocal critics of the PM and party chief Amit Anilchandra Shah within the BJP.

There is speculation that Sinha will contest the Lok Sabha elections as part of the Rashtriya Janata Dal-led alliance in Bihar. The Congress, Upendra Kushwaha's Rashtriya Lok Samta Party and some others are constituents of this alliance.

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