Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor was asked by the party's student wing NSUI to address a campaign event in Gujarat but declined as his name was not on the star campaigners' list of the party for the assembly polls in the state, sources said on Wednesday.

Tharoor's name does not feature in the list of 40 star campaigners for the party that included the likes of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and former party chiefs Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.