NEW DELHI: When the Left bloc stunned Congress by bucking Kerala’s “revolving door” politics to return to office in the state in 2021, Congress overhauled the state unit with factionally unaffiliated faces, and announced it was designed to end the notoriously entrenched factionalism in the party. Four years later, senior MP Shashi Tharoor staking claim to leadership ahead of assembly elections in 2026 has scrambled the thinly-veiled factional peace, with him as a new pole in the state Congress.
Tharoor has adopted an unconventional style. Just like his praise for the growth of start-ups under the Left Democratic Front (LDF) in Kerala, on Tuesday, he posted a photo with Union…