Shashi Tharoor To Start Campaign For Congress Polls From Nagpur Today

Shashi Tharoor will pay his tributes at Deekshabhoomi, where Dr B R Ambedkar converted to Buddhism along with his followers in 1956, on Saturday.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor will start his campaign for the party president's election by visiting the Deekshabhoomi monument in Nagpur on Saturday.

Mr Tharoor will pay his tributes at Deekshabhoomi, where Dr B R Ambedkar converted to Buddhism along with his followers in 1956, on Saturday, said Maharashtra Congress leader Ashish Deshmukh.

Mr Deshmukh has organised the Thiruvananthapuram MP's visit here.

Tharoor, 66, filed his nomination for the Congress president's election in Delhi on Friday.