{"id":388974,"date":"2022-09-30T16:25:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T10:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=388974"},"modified":"2022-09-30T18:55:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:25:21","slug":"shashi-tharoor-congress-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/shashi-tharoor-congress-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Shashi Tharoor files nomination for Congress Party\u2019s presidential election, shares aspirations to seek changes in high command culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Shashi Tharoor on Friday filled for his candidacy ahead of the Presidential elections of the Congress party. The Congress MP had announced his intention for running for party president as soon as the schedule for the party elections was fixed. Madhusudan Mistry, election authority chairman, accepted Shashi Tharoor, Thiruvananthapuram MP, papers at the All India Congress Committee Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Congress MP before officially filing for his candidature had visited Rajghat in honor of Mahatma Gandhi. Tharoor shared the pictures on his Twitter and wrote that he paid tribute to the man who built India\u2019s bridge to the 21st century and also echoed sentiments shared by the former prime minister, Rajeev Gandhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read Also<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/latest-news\/ramesh-bidhuri-controversial-statement-viral\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/latest-news\/ramesh-bidhuri-controversial-statement-viral\/\"> Watch: Parents request BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri to resolve local school issues, Bidhuri replies why they birthed their kids | Watch<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Paid tribute to the man who built India\u2019s bridge to the 21st century this morning. <br><br>\u201cIndia is an Old country but a young nation\u2026 I dream of India Strong, Independent, Self-Reliant and in the front rank of the nations of the world, in the service of mankind.\u201d<br><br>~ Rajiv Gandhi <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DQtWU3aDdr\">pic.twitter.com\/DQtWU3aDdr<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShashiTharoor\/status\/1575715864959021059?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The caption echoed Rajeev Gandhi&#8217;s dreams of India being an old country yet a young nation, and the dream of his dream for India to be strong, independent, self-reliant, and be amongst the top-ranked nations of the world in the service of mankind. The tweet showed how Tharoor still believes in the legacy left behind by Rajiv Gandhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tharoor, while talking to the media, stated that he believes that a new leader, who has not been demotivated and dismayed by the current working conditions of the congress, can be the one who can come up as a refreshing leader and appeal to more voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further addressed his underdog tag in the presidential election, however, he did further highlight that the Gandhi family had assured him they will hold a neutral role and won\u2019t back anyone as an official candidate in the party\u2019s presidential elections. Tharoor further said that Gandhi family welcomed his decision to run in the presidential elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Congress MP also reflected on his aim for High command culture and highlighted the problem of how every decision is referred up to Delhi, directing toward the Gandhi family playing the decisionmaker role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tharoor\u2019s counterpart and key candidate pit against him is Mallikarjun Kharge who has already claimed the support of all the senior party leaders according to Ashok Gehlot. However, Tharoor with high spirits welcomed the competition as he stated that Kharge is the Bhishma Pitamah of the Congress party and added that they both are not rivals, but rather colleagues, suggesting that there is no bad blood between the leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Congress MP in his interview also put forward that he aims to seek changes in order to rejuvenate the party and reimagine the leadership while also reiterating the core ideology and focusing on broadening participation by focusing on youth. Tharoor also added his aspirations to see an ethos of politics in social work return if he becomes Party President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tharoor, however, while remarking and highlighting the changes he aspires to achieve if he wins stated that the Gandhi Family is and will be the moral conscience, ultimate guiding spirit, and the foundation pillar of Congress<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from Tharoor, many names came forward who were supposed to declare their run for the presidency including Ashok Gehlot and Digvijay Singh, however, it is finalized that the key candidate for the presidency will be Malikarjun Kharge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/world-news\/mclaren-supercar-washed-away-in-florida\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/world-news\/mclaren-supercar-washed-away-in-florida\/\">Viral: Brand new McLaren Supercar worth $1 million gets washed away in Florida<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/varanasi-lecturer-dismissed-for-fb-post-navratri\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/varanasi-lecturer-dismissed-for-fb-post-navratri\/\">Varanasi lecturer removed for his FB post asking women to read Indian Constitution rather than fasting for 9 days<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tharoor, while talking to the media, stated that he believes that a new leader, who has not been demotivated and dismayed by the current working conditions of the congress, can be the one who can come up as a refreshing leader and appeal to more voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":388977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Shashi Tharoor files nomination for Congress Party\u2019s presidential election, shares aspirations to seek changes in high command culture\n\n#shashitharoor #congresspresidentialellection #congressparty","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[17,4,125714],"tags":[1689,143624,106],"yst_prominent_words":[27040,5697,3813,33090,7966,6035,3946,3814,72506,3704,63564,22429,4023,23439,5698,4381,19994,34629,31275],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2022\/09\/30161534\/Screenshot-2022-09-30-161202.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388974"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=388974"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=388974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->