Tharoor Not Invited In Key Meeting Before Kerala Elections?

Kerala state is going for the assembly elections soon, and the Congress party is seriously trying to regain power. To decide the strategy, the state president called an important meeting attended by only eleven members, and, most importantly, Tharoor was not invited, the source says. The member of parliament from Thiruvananthapuram knocked on all doors, requesting inclusion in the core group to decide the strategy, a source says. On the intervention of Delhi, he was invited, but it was made clear to all participants, including Tharoor, that the deliberations should not be leaked out under any circumstances, the source says. 

After meeting the media, people caught Tharoor to extract something, and as per his habit, though not fully, but some portions were disclosed to the media, the source says. Strangely, the next day local newspapers carried the full details of the meeting, Vervettum source says. A clear instruction from the office of the president of the party states that, in the future, Tharoor should not be included in such meetings under any circumstances, the source says. Venugopakan was put forward as a damage-control source, a source says.