After refusing to agree to the selection of Congress president based on consensus, MP from Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor, who is facing an uphill contest against veteran Karnataka leader Mallikarjun Kharge in the elections for the post of the president of Indian National Congress (INC), scheduled on October 17, will be in Chennai on Thursday to seek the support of Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) delegates.
This will be Mr. Tharoor’s fourth stop in his campaign. He is expected to meet the delegates after an interaction with students of IIT Madras. Mr. Tharoor has promised to decentralise decision making in the party, hold free elections for the post of Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) chiefs and elect members of the Central Working Committee. Mr. Tharoor’s name was proposed by Karti Chidambaram, son of former Union Minister P. Chidambaram, and his supporters from Tamil Nadu.
