India, Jan. 31 -- A thaw was visible in Shashi Tharoor's strained ties with Congress leaders in Kerala after his meeting with Rahul Gandhi, with a prominent State leader on Friday naming the Thiruvananthapuram MP a star campaigner for the party-led UDF in the upcoming polls.

Tharoor met Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi on Thursday to seek redress for his grievances, after which he said "all is good" and "We are all on the same page", signalling a rapprochement with his party ahead of the crucial Kerala Assembly polls.

"He (Tharoor) will be in the front row of the campaign initiated by the UDF in Kerala for the elections," Leader of the Opposition in the Kerala Assembly, VD Satheesan, told reporters in response to a...