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Watch | 400 is a pipedream for BJP: Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor Bharatiya Janata Party Lok Sabha

Shashi Tharoor, writer, former United Nations diplomat and sitting MP from Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency, is seeking a fourth term in the Lower House from Thiruvananthapuram in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Mr. Tharoor is a Central Working Committee (CWC) member of the Congress party.

He says the BJP-led alliance (NDA) is “in panic mode and will struggle to touch even 272, leave alone 300 or 400.”

Read the edited excerpts here.

Reporting: S Anandan

Video: Thulasi Kakkat

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