New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday filed his nomination for the post of party president and said those wanting change should vote for him, even as he described his electoral competitor Mallikarjun Kharge as a candidate of "continuity" and "status quo".
Tharoor, 66, also said he is aware of his underdog tag and talk of an 'official candidate' in some quarters but he has been told by the Gandhi family repeatedly that they are "neither directly nor indirectly" backing anyone.
Amid sound of drumbeats and fanfare, Tharoor made an entry at the AICC headquarters and submitted his papers to the party's central election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry.
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