Seeks second term as
Thiruvananthapuram MP
Union Minister of State
for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday filed his nomination
papers marking his entry into electoral politics for the second term from the
Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency. Mr. Tharoor filed his nomination
before District Collector Biju Prabhakar, who is also the District Election
Officer, around 12 noon.
A
diplomat-turned-politician, Mr. Tharoor made his maiden electoral debut in the
2009 Lok Sabha polls from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency which he won by
defeating his nearest rival P. Ramachandran Nair of the Communist Party of
India (CPI) by around 1 lakh votes.
Mr. Tharoor is pitted
against CPI’s Bennet Abraham, who is the director of the Dr. Somervell Memorial
Medical College at Karakkonam, and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate O.
Rajagopal, a former Union Minister, in the 2014 polls.
Minister for Health V.S.
Sivakumar; A.T. George, MLA; Thampanoor Ravi, general secretary of the Kerala
Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC); and K. Mohan Kumar, president of the
District Congress Committee; were present when Mr. Tharoor filed his nomination
papers.
Kerala Socialist Party
nominee Kunnukuzhi S. Mani also filed his nominations papers for Thiruvananthapuram
Lok Sabha seat on Tuesday.
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