Shashi Tharoor spoke at a session titled India: The Future is Now at the Kerala Literature Festival

CPI(M) and Congress won't agree on seat sharing in Kerala: Tharoor

BJP's numbers can be brought down: Shashi Tharoor

2024 is the year of the Lok Sabha election and the full fledged preparations and calculations for it have begun. Winning the major heartland states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh had proved to be an advantage for the BJP but that would not prevent the Congress from strategising. 

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor while speaking at a session titled India: The Future is Now at the Kerala Literature Festival explained his thought process ahead of the election. “I still expect that the BJP will emerge as the single-largest party. But I do believe their numbers can be brought down to a level where their potential allies required to form a government may no longer be willing to ally with them and may be willing to ally with us. So we have to give it a try,” he said. 

He emphasised on precision and agreeability with regard to seat sharing being key to success for the I.N.D.I.A ahead of the election. “In Kerala, it is almost impossible to imagine the two major opponents here of the INDIA alliance, namely the CPI(M) and the Congress, ever agreeing on seat-sharing, but right next door in Tamil Nadu, the CPI, CPI(M), Congress and DMK are all allied together and there is no debate, no dispute. They already fought the last election together. They are likely to fight this one too,” he explained.