Didn't call Kharge ignorant agent of change: Tharoor

October 04, 2022 08:36

Shashi Tharoor, Congress MP and candidate for the party's presidential elections, is livid.

Tharoor who is pitted against Mallikarjun Kharge tweeted this morning saying, "A supposedly verbatim transcript of an interview with the @NewIndianXpress attributes to me a phrase I've never used, allegedly calling @kharge ji "an ignorant agent of change'. I have never said that& don't even know what it means. I demand an immediate correction! @PrabhuChawla."

Tharoor on Monday said that with two consecutive losses in the Lok Sabha elections, there is a need for a "renewed and reinvigorated" party to take on the challenge of the ruling BJP at the Centre.

Tharoor is currently in Hyderabad campaigning for the upcoming presidential polls of the party in which he is up against the veteran leader Mallikarjun Kharge.

"This election is about how Congress should be best equipped to take on the ruling govt today, which is BJP. We have lost two elections... We need a renewed, reinvigorated Congress party where it is mobilized effectively to take on this challenge," Tharoor said while speaking to the media.

"Let me make clear that I agree with @kharge ji that all of us in @incIndia wish to take on the BJP rather than each other. There is no ideological difference between us. The choice for our voting colleagues Oct 17 is only on how to do it most effectively," Tharoor had said in a tweet yesterday.

His remarks came a day after Kharge said he told Tharoor that it would be better to have a consensus candidate but the Lok Sabha MP insisted on a contest for the "sake of democracy".

The polling for the Congress presidential election will be held on October 17.

The counting of votes will be taken up on October 19 and the results will be declared the same day.

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