Congress President Polls 2022 Live Updates: Mallikarjun Kharge or Shashi Tharoor — Polling begins as Congress votes to elect new chief
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| Congress President Polls 2022 Live Updates: Mallikarjun Kharge or Shashi Tharoor — Polling begins as Congress votes to elect new chief |
New Delhi : The Congress began voting today to elect the first non-Gandhi president in 24 years, as the party gears for the fifth major election in its 137-year-old history and only the first such election in the past 20 years.
The election is a direct contest between 80-year-old Karnataka veteran Mallikarjun Kharge and 66-year-old former UN diplomat-turned-politician Shashi Tharoor.
Former finance minister P Chidambaram was the first to vote at the AICC headquarters followed by senior leaders.
Rahul Gandhi will vote in a Bharat Jodo Yatra campsite at Ballari in Karnataka while contestants Kharge and Tharoor will vote in their respective state unit offices at Karnataka and Kerala.
The results will be declared after the counting of votes on October 19.
The last election for the post was held in 2000 when Sonia Gandhi defeated Jitendra Prasad winning 7,448 votes against the latter's 94.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi cast his vote for next Congress chief.
Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and state party chief Uday Bhan cast their votes for the presidential election of the Indian National Congress at Haryana Pradesh Congress office in Chandigarh.
Former prime minister Manmohan Singh cast his vote in the Congress president election.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi cast her vote in the party's polls to elect her successor.
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh also cast his vote for the next Congress chief at the AICC headquarters.
Speaking on the occasion, he said that Congress presidential polls are free, fair and transparent.
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