S Sreesanth plans to contest 2024 LS elections to defeat Congress MP Shashi Tharoor

Mumbai: Disgraced Indian pacer S Sreesanth has stated that he would contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections as a Bharatiya Janta Party member from Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram constituency in order to defeat his favourite personality, Shashi Tharoor, who supported him through thick and thin times.

During an interview with The Indian Express, the 36-year-old stated, “I am a huge fan of his (sic) as a person who had stood by me but I will defeat him in the elections in Thiruvananthapuram. No doubt about it.”

In the interview, he also mentioned about the time he spent in Tihar jail and the experience he faced there. He also suggested that he was innocent.

“Now I am in control and so many good things are happening – from music, movies, books, web-series, cricket, and politics,” Sreesanth stated.

Earlier in August 2013, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) banned Sreesanth for life along with Rajasthan Royals’ Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan for their alleged involvement in spot-fixing in the 2013 IPL.

Previously, on March 15, 2019, the Supreme Court differentiated the BCCI disciplinary committee’s order and the suspension was brought down to seven years, allowing him to play next year.

Sreesanth joined BJP in March 2016 and it was during that year only that he contested and lost the Kerala Assembly elections from Thiruvananthapuram.