Lok Sabha Election 2024: Shashi Tharoor Beats Rajeev Chandrasekhar In Thiruvananthapuram
Incumbent three-term MP Shashi Tharoor of the Congress has defeated? Union Minister and BJP leader Rajeev Chandrasekhar?in arguably the most high-profile contest in South India in the Lok Sabha Elections. Chandrasekhar was edged out by Tharoor in the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat in Kerala on Tuesday, while former MP Pannian Raveendran of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) took the third position.
Tharoor vs Chandrasekhar
Tharoor, who was contesting his fourth successive Lok Sabha elections from Thiruvananthapuram had taken the early lead.?ThoughChandrasekhar took the lead back after multiple rounds of back and forth, he could not maintain it?as the counting progressed.
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The voter turnout in the Thiruvananthapuram constituency was 72.17 per cent, in the voting held on April 26 in the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections.
Shashi Tharoor's political career
68-year-old Tharoor, who was formerly an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations began his political career in 2009, with the Congress and made his electoral debut from Thiruvananthapuram.
Tharoor who retained the Lok Sabha seat in 2014 and 2019 had hinted that 2024 will be his last election.
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Rajeev Chandrasekhar's career
Chandrasekhar, who was born to Malayali parents in Ahmedabad is an electrical engineering graduate at Manipal Institute of Technology and started his career with Intel.
He began his political career as an Independent MP Rajya Sabha from Karnataka in 2006 and became a BJP MP in April 2018. The 6-year-old entrepreneur served as MoS Electronics and Information Technology, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, and Ministry of Jal Shakti in the Modi cabinet.
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