Tainted Indian pacer S Sreesanth has said that he will contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections as a Bharatiya Janta Party candidate and will defeat Congress MP Shashi Tharoor from Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram constituency.
“I am a huge fan of his (sic) as a person who had stood by me but I will defeat him in the elections in Thiruvananthapuram. No doubt about it,” he said in an interview with The Indian Express.
In the interview, he also talked about his time in Tihar Jail and how he dealt with the traumatic experiences he faced. He insisted that he was innocent.
“Now I am in control and so many good things are happening – from music, movies, books, web-series, cricket, and politics.”S Sreesanth, speaking with The Indian Express
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had banned Sreesanth for life in August 2013, along with his Rajasthan Royals teammates Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan for indulging in alleged spot-fixing in the IPL of that year.
But on 15 March this year, the Supreme Court set aside the BCCI disciplinary committee’s order and the suspension was reduced to seven years, allowing him to play next year.
He joined the BJP in March 2016, after which he contested and lost the Kerala Assembly elections from Thiruvananthapuram.
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