The Lok Sabha MP will be competing against Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor received the nomination forms for the party presidential election on Saturday as the week-long window for filing of the papers opened, reported PTI.
The Lok Sabha MP from Thiruvananthapuram officially confirmed that he is set to contest the poll after his aide Aalim Javeri collected the forms from Madhusudan Mistry, the chairperson of the Congress Central Election Authority.
