Goa MP Francisco Sardinha blasts Shashi Tharoor: “No point in contesting when you are 100 per cent going to lose”

PANAJI: South Goa Congress MP Francisco Sardinha today took a dig at Shashi Tharoor after casting his vote at the Congress Presidential polls saying, “What is the point of contesting when you know that you are 100 per cent going to lose, you just want to show that you contested,” he quipped.

Sardinha was quoted by news agency ANI as saying “Shashi Tharoor is my colleague. If I had to meet I would have requested him for it because I knew everybody would be for Mallikarjun, so what is the point when you know that you are 100 per cent going to lose, you just want to show that you contested.”

He added that he was sure that veteran leader Mallikarjun Kharge’s would be victorious and get elected for the party’s president post.

“There is nothing new, there have been elections earlier, unopposed, Madam Sonia ji was the president, Rahul ji was the president and now there are elections and I am sure Mallikarjjun ji will be the new president of the Congress,” Sardinha told ANI in Panaji.