The All India Congress Committee (AICC) seemed to skirt around factional politics in the Congress in Kerala by elevating Shashi Tharoor, MP, to the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the party’s highest decision-making body.
Mr. Tharoor had acquired a national profile in the Congress by contesting, though unsuccessfully, against Mallikarjun Kharge, for the post of AICC president.
The AICC seemed to broadcast that it was earnest in democratising its internal function by promoting Mr. Tharoor, the “high-profile dissenter” who campaigned against the “official candidate” promising “change and not continuity” to the CWC.
