In October 2022, he contested the Congress party’s presidential polls however, he lost to his rival, Mallikarjun Kharge, by more than eight times votes.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, he won from Thiruvananthapuram.

Shashi Tharoor was removed from the post of Congress spokesperson on 13 October 2014 after he praised his party's opponent, Narendra Modi.

He was named Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs. Rajagopal of the Bharatiya Janata Party by a margin of around 15,000 votes, and got the membership of the 15th Lok Sabha, sitting in Opposition. In May 2014, Tharoor was re-elected from Thiruvananthapuram, defeating O.of Manmohan Singh, he was sworn in as Minister of State for External Affairs, in charge of Africa, Latin America, and the Gulf on. Tharoor won the election by a margin of about 100,000.

In the 2009 Indian General Elections, Tharoor was the MP candidate for Congress Party from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.On 9 February 2007, Tharoor resigned from the post of UN Under-Secretary-General and left the United Nations on 1 April 2007.Tharoor finished second, behind Ban Ki-moon. In 2006, the Government of India nominated Shashi Tharoor for the post of UN Secretary-General.He became Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, and as Head of the Department of Public Information (UNDPI) in 2001.Tharoor was appointed the director of communications and special projects and executive assistant to the then Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 1996.In 1989, he was appointed as the special assistant to the Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs, the unit that later became the Peacekeeping Operations wing in New York.He was head of the UNHCR office in Singapore from 1981 until 1984.Tharoor's Career in the United Nations started in 1978 as a staff member of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva.

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