Kerala: How Shashi Tharoor’s victory in 2014 silenced his critics

The Sunanda Pushkar death case had cast a shadow on the political life of Shashi Tharoor. This was reflected when there was a campaign against him contesting the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from Thiruvananthapuram. Even though he was not favoured by the state leadership then, the party high command stood with Tharoor.