Shashi Tharoor Calls for 'Free & Fair' Polls To Elect Congress President

Tharoor is also reportedly contemplating whether he should contest the poll for Congress president.

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor called for a "free and fair" election to the post of the party president and said that ideally elections should have been called for the dozen seats in the Congress Working Committee (CWC) and other high-level bodies.

In an article for Malayalam daily 'Mathrubhumi', the Thiruvananthapuram MP said, "Allowing members of the party drawn from the AICC and PCC delegates to determine who will lead the party from these key positions, would have helped legitimise the incoming set of leaders and give them a credible mandate to lead the party."

However, he said that electing a fresh president would be a start towards the "revitalisation the Congress needs badly."