Tharoor accepts Chandrasekhar’s challenge for debate, poll heat rises
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New Delhi: Thiruvananthapuram constituency is to face rising poll heat, alongside the peaking summer, as candidates of the Congress and the BJP have begun fiercely taking on each other.
The senior Congress Leader Shashi Tharoor, who is seeking a fourth straight term, has accepted NDA candidate Rajeev Chandrasekhar’s willingness for a debate between them on development in the region.
Accepting what is now termed as ‘challege’ , Tharoor said voters know who has been evading a debate, according to a report by NDTV.
‘Yes, I welcome a debate. But the people of Thiruvananthapuram are aware of who has been evading a debate till now. Let us debate politics and development,’ Shashi Tharoor posed on social platform X.
Tharoor added willingness to debate ‘price hike, unemployment, communalism, and the BJP's 10 years of propagating politics of hatred. Let us also discuss about the development of Thiruvananthapuram and the visible progress we have made in last 15 years.’
Chandrasekhar, who is the Minister of State for Information Technology and Skill Development, and is currently an MP from the Rajya Sabha, is for the first time contesting in a LS poll.
Fielding the Union Minister in Thiruvananathapuram suggests the BJP’s move to garner maximum seats from South India.
The party’s previous efforts to make inroads into South did not yield much results except in Karnataka where the Congress is currently in power.