Dr Shashi Tharoor has been a Lok Sabha Member from Thiruvanathapuram in Kerala since 2009. He is a Congress leader having fans (majority of them literate) throughout the country and abroad. Before entering active politics in India, he served as the Under Secretary General of the United Nations Organization.
Even though Shashi Tharoor is one of the few highly learned and efficient politicians in the country and has been doing justice to his position as a staunch Congress M P, it is not known why the Congress leadership has not recognized him properly or used his ideas and expertness for the betterment of the party and the country. May be it is because he is not a member of any useless groups in the state Congress that usually prevent the party from winning elections.
Recently the Congress high command gave Shashi Tharoor the responsibility of drafting the Congress Election Manifesto for the upcoming Assembly Elections . This move is considered as a positive movement by the people. As he is probably the only politician in India who can prepare a manifesto in accordance to the international standards, it is hoped that he will do it very brilliantly and systematically.
As a part of his new responsibility, Shashi Tharur has already started the program titled as 'Talk to Tharoor' in which the response is awesome. He has started interacting with people belonging to various sections of the society such as youths, students, women, corporates, etc and collecting their ideas for preparing the manifesto.
Those who cannot participate in the 'Talk 2 Tharoor' interaction sessions personally can even write their suggestions and opinions to Tharoor through the below mentioned Email Id:
manifesto@tharoor.in
People are of the opinion that, by recognizing and giving a significant responsibility to Shashi Tharoor who is an accomplished writer, orator and thinker, the party has done a good thing, which will definitely boost up the chances of Congress Party's victory in Kerala.
