Congress MPs seek Tharoor entry into new CWC

In the run-up to the All India Congress Committee plenary session, a group of Congress parliamentarians from Kerala urged party president Mallikarjun Kharge to induct their colleague Shashi Tharoor into the new Congress Working Committee (CWC), which is due for reconstitution during or after the plenary.

Lok Sabha members K Muralidharan, KM Raghavan and Benny Behnan were learnt to have conveyed their sentiments during their recent meeting with Kharge in Parliament House. Kharge reportedly said no decision has been yet taken about constituting the new CWC.

The MPs' appeal meant that even if the leadership is thinking of averting a contest to the CWC at the plenary, Tharoor be inducted into the top party body.