{"id":245135,"date":"2022-10-09T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/?p=245135"},"modified":"2022-10-09T20:24:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T20:24:00","slug":"video-watch-ndtv-townhall-shashi-tharoor-on-running-for-congress-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2022\/10\/09\/video-watch-ndtv-townhall-shashi-tharoor-on-running-for-congress-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Video | Watch: NDTV Townhall – Shashi Tharoor On Running For Congress Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Congress leader Shashi Tharoor at the NDTV townhall in Mumbai spoke on a wide range of issues linked to the party ahead of the party President’s election. One of the key points he made was an allusion to an ‘official’ non-official Congress candidate, Mallikarjun Kharge, who the Kerala MP considered a veteran leader with solid backing of his peers. Mr Tharoor said he is only a simple citizen who enjoys the support of the common people.\n <\/p>\n

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  1. On Congress president elections: <\/strong>The Gandhi family has made it clear, also through Mr Mistry, that there’s no official candidate. I am assuming that there’s no official candidate. But some people in the party are assuming that there’s an official candidate.<\/li>\n
  2. I have to take the word of my party president and Gandhi family.<\/li>\n
  3. I always expected that there would be a senior candidate and senior leaders would rally behind him. And that’s apparent with Mallikarjun Kharge’s nomination form and his campaign trail. Wherever he goes, there are leaders. But wherever I am going, there are normal citizens.<\/li>\n
  4. He (Rahul Gandhi) never asked me to withdraw. But had he asked me to, I had to say I am sorry. I have never run away from any challenge in my life.<\/li>\n
  5. On the fairness of Congress elections: <\/strong>I am running because I don’t think we can have business as usual. We need a change not just inside the party but we need to demonstrate it to the public.<\/li>\n
  6. What drove the public, some senior leaders away from us? – And change in the party is a way to demonstrate that.<\/li>\n
  7. I can’t say that it’s a level playing field. There are some aspects that suggest an uneven playing field.<\/li>\n
  8. On reforms needed in Congress:<\/strong> I believe we (Congress) need to get back voters who didn’t vote for us in 2014 and 2019.<\/li>\n
  9. Our principle [as against Mallikarjun Kharge] is different as to how to make the party ready for the elections. I believe that business as usual wouldn’t work. So it’s between business as usual and parivartan<\/em> (change).<\/li>\n
  10. No such thing as G-23. I signed that letter which asked for a very specific thing. All those things in the letter are in my manifesto. Those who were supporting those points are not supporting this.<\/li>\n
  11. I want to decentralise our high command structure. I want to empower our grassroots. It is about re-energising the party by empowering the workers.<\/li>\n
  12. On the Elitist tag:<\/strong> I am not some sort of a rich man. I don’t come from a rich family. My father was a salaried man. It’s wrong to call me an elitist. Maybe am guilty of being rich in intellect.<\/li>\n
  13. I won three Lok Sabha elections in a constituency with support of the fisherfolk and adivasis, so give me a break about this talk of being elitist.<\/li>\n
  14. On Mallikarjun Kharge:<\/strong> He’s a Dalit. If he wanted to bring about some change, he would have done it.<\/li>\n
  15. On the Gandhi family:<\/strong> The DNA of the Congress party and blood of the Nehru-Gandhi family has been inextricably intertwined.<\/li>\n
  16. Rahul Gandhi can be a great asset. I have been with him during the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’. And I have seen scores of people from 6 in the morning to cheer for him.<\/li>\n
  17. On taking on BJP:<\/strong> I find it bizarre that BJP has a plank of nationalism where nobody from their has contributed to the nation’s freedom struggle.<\/li>\n
  18. On Hindutva:<\/strong> I am a bhakt <\/em>of Vivekananda. His vision of Hinduism is something I have grown up with. It’s about acceptance. It’s – you accept my truth, I will accept yours.<\/li>\n
  19. Hinduism has nothing to do with Hindutva.<\/li>\n
  20. In a country of 80 per cent, BJP’s vote share is 30 per cent. We are standing up of broad-minded Hindus.<\/li>\n
  21. On winning the vote of young people:<\/strong> I am not at all young enough to speak for them. So, I would hear their voices.<\/li>\n
  22. I have suggested moving a constitutional amendment to have a certain number of seats for people under the age of 30.<\/li>\n
  23. We have got to do much more on job creation and skill development.<\/li>\n
  24. On winning or losing the Congress president elections:<\/strong> Doesn’t matter who wins. Whether Kharge wins or Tharoor wins, Congress party should win.<\/li>\n
  25. If I were to lose, I would say that all the people who voted for me – are a voice that the party must heed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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