‘Congress leaders asked Rahul Gandhi to request me to withdraw from president polls’: Tharoor

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, who is currently busy campaigning for the party presidential polls, on Tuesday claimed that senior party leader Rahul Gandhi was asked by senior leaders to request him to withdraw from the polls. The Thiruvananthapuram MP told reporters in Kerala that Gandhi said he will not ask the former to withdraw as a contest would benefit the grand old party.