League has its way again, lands seat on SCTIMST institute body
The New Indian Express Kochi|December 19, 2024
Forces Congress to intervene and reach an agreement with the BJP to keep Tharoor's place
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AT A TIME when political opponents have been pointing to how the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) has been throwing its weight around in the UDF, a controversy erupted over the Congress leadership allegedly deciding to hand its seat on the prestigious Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST) institute body to IUML leader and Lok Sabha MP E T Mohammed Basheer, in place of Shashi Tharoor. It was only after Tharoor, the Thiruvananthapuram MP, took the issue up with the Congress high command that the party intervened and reached an agreement with the BJP to get a seat for its CWC member.

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