Congress presidential polls: Counting of votes starts in Kharge vs Tharoor contest

Through PTI

NEW DELHI: The counting of votes started on Wednesday within the Congress presidential polls through which senior leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor confronted off for the put up of AICC leader.

The counting of the votes, which used to be scheduled to start at 10 am on the AICC headquarters right here, began round 10:20 am.

All sealed poll containers from the 68 polling cubicles arrange around the nation were introduced right here through Tuesday night and saved in a “sturdy room” on the birthday party place of business.

Requested about experiences of lawsuits associated with polling in Uttar Pradesh and a few different states, Tharoor marketing campaign workforce member Salman Soz mentioned they’ve raised positive problems with the central election authority (CEA) and feature been in verbal exchange with CEA chairman Madhusudan Mistry “ahead of polling, on polling day and after that”.

The counting brokers of Kharge are Pramod Tiwari, Kodikunil Suresh, Gaurav Gogoi, Syed Nasir Hussain, Kuljit Singh Bagra and Gurdeep Singh Sappal.

Karti Chidambaram, Atul Chaturvedi and Sumedh Gaikwad are amongst those that are counting brokers of Tharoor.

Whilst Kharge is thought of as the company favorite along with his perceived proximity to the Gandhis and a lot of senior leaders backing him, Tharoor has pitched himself because the candidate of alternate.

Congress central election authority chairman Mistry has expressed pride with the birthday party’s presidential polls procedure, pronouncing it used to be “loose, truthful and clear”.

He has additionally mentioned it used to be a secret poll and nobody would get to grasp who voted for whom.

Of the full 9,915 Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) delegates that shaped the electoral faculty to select the birthday party leader in a secret poll, over 9,500 forged their poll at PCC places of work and the AICC headquarters, Mistry had mentioned at a press convention after the polling ended on Monday.

The birthday party gets its first non-Gandhi president in 24 years after greater than 9,500 votes are counted.

The polls are historical as the brand new president would change 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.

Electors within the Congress presidential polls were requested to position a tick mark in opposition to their candidate within the poll paper after Tharoor’s workforce took up with the birthday party’s best 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.

NEW DELHI: The counting of votes started on Wednesday within the Congress presidential polls through which senior leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor confronted off for the put up of AICC leader.

The counting of the votes, which used to be scheduled to start at 10 am on the AICC headquarters right here, began round 10:20 am.

All sealed poll containers from the 68 polling cubicles arrange around the nation were introduced right here through Tuesday night and saved in a “sturdy room” on the birthday party place of business.

Requested about experiences of lawsuits associated with polling in Uttar Pradesh and a few different states, Tharoor marketing campaign workforce member Salman Soz mentioned they’ve raised positive problems with the central election authority (CEA) and feature been in verbal exchange with CEA chairman Madhusudan Mistry “ahead of polling, on polling day and after that”.

The counting brokers of Kharge are Pramod Tiwari, Kodikunil Suresh, Gaurav Gogoi, Syed Nasir Hussain, Kuljit Singh Bagra and Gurdeep Singh Sappal.

Karti Chidambaram, Atul Chaturvedi and Sumedh Gaikwad are amongst those that are counting brokers of Tharoor.

Whilst Kharge is thought of as the company favorite along with his perceived proximity to the Gandhis and a lot of senior leaders backing him, Tharoor has pitched himself because the candidate of alternate.

Congress central election authority chairman Mistry has expressed pride with the birthday party’s presidential polls procedure, pronouncing it used to be “loose, truthful and clear”.

He has additionally mentioned it used to be a secret poll and nobody would get to grasp who voted for whom.

Of the full 9,915 Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) delegates that shaped the electoral faculty to select the birthday party leader in a secret poll, over 9,500 forged their poll at PCC places of work and the AICC headquarters, Mistry had mentioned at a press convention after the polling ended on Monday.

The birthday party gets its first non-Gandhi president in 24 years after greater than 9,500 votes are counted.

The polls are historical as the brand new president would change 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.

Electors within the Congress presidential polls were requested to position a tick mark in opposition to their candidate within the poll paper after Tharoor’s workforce took up with the birthday party’s best 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.