Incumbent MP Shashi Tharoor, who is gunning for a fourth victory on the trot from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency at the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, has contested claims made by his rival and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar, over the measures adopted to ameliorate the woes of coastal communities in the district.
Mr. Tharoor took to X to pick holes in a letter that was apparently used by Mr. Chandrasekhar to highlight the assistance that has been purportedly offered by the Centre’s Department of Fisheries to the State government to resolve issues related to harbour development projects in coastal areas.
“The BJP has blanketed coastal Pozhiyoor with posters claiming its candidate has resolved the long-standing grievances of the local people, which I have been raising in Parliament and with the Union government for more than a decade, by obtaining a letter dated 15 March from a PS to an MoS. Some have been fooled into thinking the letter does what the BJP claims it does (sic),” he posted.
