Shashi Tharoor, erstwhile UN bureaucrat, author, businessman, and referrred to by diplomatic insiders as a "smoothie slime ball" is to be Congress candidate for Thiruvananthapuram.
In a typical statement, he said, "I am not looking beyond a victory in the constituency of Thiruvananthapuram. It is for the people of Thiruvananthapuram that I am here." The 53-year-old career diplomat says he "accepted" that the the local people may feel that their hardwork is being bypassed in favour of somebody from the outside".
He was questioned that he knew Manhattan better than Thiruvananthapuram, but he denied the tag of an outsider.
He had indicated before elections that he would want to contest the elections, preferably as a Congress candidate.
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