Veerappa Moily announces retirement from electoral politics
Bengaluru (PTI): Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Veerappa Moily has announced his retirement from active politics. However, he assured to work for Chikkaballapura Lok Sabha candidate Raksha Ramaiah.
Moily, who served as Karnataka Chief Minister from November 1992 to December 1994, announced his retirement at Chikkaballapura.
The 84-year-old Congress leader was aspiring for a Lok Sabha ticket from Chikkaballapura. However, the party chose Raksha Ramaiah.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, he said he would work for Ramaiah as a committee Congress worker.
Moily was a union minister in the UPA-2 government holding various portfolios including petroleum and natural gas.
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Absolutely not getting into that subject: Tharoor on Congress' objections on all-party delegations
New Delhi (PTI): Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday declined to join issue with some opposition parties, including his own, over the government's choice of MPs from their ranks for all-party delegations to foreign capitals following Operation Sindoor.
"I am absolutely not getting into that subject," he told reporters as the chairman of Parliament's Standing Committee on External Affairs arrived for its meeting, which is being briefed by Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on the India-Pakistan military conflict after the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack.
Tharoor has been chosen by the BJP-led government to head one of the seven all-party delegations. His group will visit the US and four other countries.
The names of Tharoor and two other Congress MPs, who are members of other all-party delegations, had not figured among the four suggested by the main opposition party to the government.
The Congress and the Trinamool Congress, which has asked its sole representative Yusuf Pathan to opt out of the delegation, have criticised the government for not seeking their leaderships' consent for its choice of their leaders for the diplomatic outreach.
Accepting the nomination to lead the delegation to the US and four other countries, Tharoor had said in a post on X, "I am honoured by the invitation of the government of India to lead an all-party delegation to five key capitals, to present our nation's point of view on recent events."
"When national interest is involved, and my services are required, I will not be found wanting. Jai Hind!" he had added.
