Congress Lok Sabha member from Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor speaks on the United Democratic Front’s historic victory in the Kerala Assembly elections, the delay in naming the next chief minister, Kerala’s fiscal crisis, and what the mandate means for the INDIA bloc. Excerpts : Shashi Tharoor: The fact is that Congress has such an abundance of talent in Kerala — so many people with the experience, the seniority, the years in politics to be a credible CM contender — that no one can give you a simple answer. What’ll happen, I have no doubt, is that very quickly we will see party headquarters consulting with the elected MLAs — maybe as early as tomorrow. Once they’ve got their feedback, they’ll make a decision with the high command in Delhi . It’ll come pretty quickly. How long will this take? Two days? A week? The message is very clear that we don’t want to drag this out in an unseemly way. The intention is to get this done fairly quickly. Isn’t the problem exactly what you described?…