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Kochi: Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor has listed out three reasons why he feels the BJP could lose the Lok Sabha elections...
Tharoor said that for some BJP leaders, it would instead be Ab ki baar, Tihar, referring to the revelations on the electoral bonds likening it to extortion and bribery...
The first pertained to what Tharoor described as the desperate search for allies, ranging from the Chandrababu Naidu-led Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in Andhra Pradesh to the failed bid to convince the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in Punjab and finally, the failed attempt to form an alliance in Odisha with the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), almost bending over backwards...
Tharoor sounded very confident about his prospects despite the three-term anti-incumbency factor and his immediate challenger, the BJPs Rajeev Chandrasekhar the Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology giving him a tough fight...
On the unfinished agenda on his report card, Tharoor said the idea of a High Court bench in Thiruvananthapuram wasnt in his control but he argued passionately in favour of it, saying that officials constantly shuttling between the state capital and Kochi, where the High Court is currently located, was only causing wasteful expenditure...
