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The Congress birthday party elected veteran chief Mallikarjun Kharge as its first non-Gandhi president in 24 years on Wednesday. Out of the 9,385 votes polled within the Congress presidential polls, Mallikarjun Kharge were given 7,897 votes, Shashi Tharoor secured 1,072 votes, and 416 votes had been declared invalid, the birthday party’s Central Election Authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry mentioned.
Kharge received with 8 occasions extra votes.
Tharoor congratulated Kharge in a letter announcing, “Our new President is a celebration colleague and senior who brings plentiful management and enjoy to the desk.”
Kharge will substitute Sonia Gandhi, the longest-serving birthday party president who has been on the helm since 1998, barring the 2 years between 2017 and 2019 when Rahul Gandhi had taken over.
MP Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday mentioned the president was once the ‘preferrred authority’ within the Congress and whoever were given elected to the publish would make a decision at the means ahead (for the birthday party). “President is the preferrred authority within the Congress and everybody stories to him. My position – I’m very transparent – Congress president will make a decision what my position is and the way I will be able to be deployed,” he remarked as Bharat Jodo Yatra entered Andhra Pradesh.
Congress central election authority chairman Mistry on Monday expressed pleasure with the birthday party’s presidential polls procedure, announcing it was once “unfastened, honest and clear”. He additionally mentioned it was once a secret poll and no person would get to understand who voted for whom.
READ HERE | Mallikarjun Kharge: A profile
Of the overall 9,915 Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) delegates that shaped the electoral school to select the birthday party leader in a secret poll, over 9,500 solid their poll at PCC workplaces and the AICC headquarters, Mistry had mentioned at a press convention after the polling ended on Monday.
Electors within the Congress presidential polls have been requested to position a tick mark towards their candidate within the poll paper after Tharoor’s workforce took up with the birthday party’s most sensible ballot frame the problem of its previous directive that electorate write “1” to mirror their choice. This, the workforce mentioned, would possibly result in confusion.
Congress Presidential candidate Shashi Tharoor problems a observation congratulating Congress President-elect Mallikarjun Kharge; says “I imagine the revival of our birthday party has in point of fact begun lately.” percent.twitter.com/tNnqti8CIT
— ANI (@ANI) October 19, 2022
Forward of the polling, Kharge had mentioned he would haven’t any disgrace in taking the recommendation and toughen of the Gandhi circle of relatives in operating the birthday party affairs, if he turns into its president.
Tharoor, on his section, took a veiled dig at some senior leaders supporting Kharge, announcing that some colleagues had been “indulging in ‘netagiri’ and telling birthday party employees that they know who Sonia Gandhi desires elected”.
(With inputs from PTI)
The Congress birthday party elected veteran chief Mallikarjun Kharge as its first non-Gandhi president in 24 years on Wednesday. Out of the 9,385 votes polled within the Congress presidential polls, Mallikarjun Kharge were given 7,897 votes, Shashi Tharoor secured 1,072 votes, and 416 votes had been declared invalid, the birthday party’s Central Election Authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry mentioned.
Kharge received with 8 occasions extra votes.
Tharoor congratulated Kharge in a letter announcing, “Our new President is a celebration colleague and senior who brings plentiful management and enjoy to the desk.”
Kharge will substitute Sonia Gandhi, the longest-serving birthday party president who has been on the helm since 1998, barring the 2 years between 2017 and 2019 when Rahul Gandhi had taken over.
MP Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday mentioned the president was once the ‘preferrred authority’ within the Congress and whoever were given elected to the publish would make a decision at the means ahead (for the birthday party). “President is the preferrred authority within the Congress and everybody stories to him. My position – I’m very transparent – Congress president will make a decision what my position is and the way I will be able to be deployed,” he remarked as Bharat Jodo Yatra entered Andhra Pradesh.
Congress central election authority chairman Mistry on Monday expressed pleasure with the birthday party’s presidential polls procedure, announcing it was once “unfastened, honest and clear”. He additionally mentioned it was once a secret poll and no person would get to understand who voted for whom.
READ HERE | Mallikarjun Kharge: A profile
Of the overall 9,915 Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) delegates that shaped the electoral school to select the birthday party leader in a secret poll, over 9,500 solid their poll at PCC workplaces and the AICC headquarters, Mistry had mentioned at a press convention after the polling ended on Monday.
Electors within the Congress presidential polls have been requested to position a tick mark towards their candidate within the poll paper after Tharoor’s workforce took up with the birthday party’s most sensible ballot frame the problem of its previous directive that electorate write “1” to mirror their choice. This, the workforce mentioned, would possibly result in confusion.
Congress Presidential candidate Shashi Tharoor problems a observation congratulating Congress President-elect Mallikarjun Kharge; says “I imagine the revival of our birthday party has in point of fact begun lately.” percent.twitter.com/tNnqti8CIT
— ANI (@ANI) October 19, 2022
Forward of the polling, Kharge had mentioned he would haven’t any disgrace in taking the recommendation and toughen of the Gandhi circle of relatives in operating the birthday party affairs, if he turns into its president.
Tharoor, on his section, took a veiled dig at some senior leaders supporting Kharge, announcing that some colleagues had been “indulging in ‘netagiri’ and telling birthday party employees that they know who Sonia Gandhi desires elected”.
(With inputs from PTI)