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- Published: October 17, 2022 08:26
New Delhi: At least 9,200 Congress Party delegates are all set to elect their ideal candidate among the two parliamentarians- Shashi Tharoor and Mallikarjun Kharge- today for the congress party top post.
The voting will be done between 10 am and 4 pm on Monday, the results will be declared on October 19.
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Congress presidential elections | Congress MPs P Chidambaram, Jairam Ramesh and other party leaders cast their votes at the AICC office in Delhi. pic.twitter.com/IUMhCjKdst
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I’m confident. The fate of the Congress party is in the hands of party workers. The odds have been stacked against us as the party leaders & establishment were overwhelmingly with the other candidate: Congress presidential candidate Shashi Tharoor, at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala pic.twitter.com/pEENIU1tBI
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Voting for Congress presidential elections will begin at 10 am at the AICC office in Delhi pic.twitter.com/gJbDWEfIQn
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A total of 75 Congress delegates incl party’s interim pres Sonia Gandhi, Gen Secy Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, former PM Manmohan Singh & other CWC members & senior leaders will cast their votes in AICC headquarters, Delhi
280 delegates will cast their votes in Delhi Congress office.
— ANI (@ANI) October 17, 2022
“The polling booth for Congress Presidential elections at the Bharat Jodo Yatra campsite in Sanganakallu, Ballari in Karnataka will open at 10am,” tweets Congress Communications in charge Jairam Ramesh pic.twitter.com/YWndXpMKE2
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Congress set to choose its next president today, election b/w 10am-4pm; result on Oct 19
Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi & former PM Manmohan Singh will vote in Delhi. Rahul Gandhi will vote at Bharat Jodo Yatra campsite, Bellari
Visuals from Lucknow,UP pic.twitter.com/01FuE7oLCa
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Congress to vote to elect its next president today
Visuals from the residence of Congress presidential candidate Shashi Tharoor in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala pic.twitter.com/4mQ6sarfZj
— ANI (@ANI) October 17, 2022
Congress Party to vote today to elect its next president. Senior party leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor are in the fray.
The counting of votes and declaration of results will take place in Delhi on October 19.
Visuals from AICC Headquarters, Delhi pic.twitter.com/bPwfdv1kZ0
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It is not the first time that a non-Gandhi leader is contesting for the party presidency post-Independence, Jitendra Prasad contested for the post of President about 22 years ago against Sonia Gandhi in which Sonia emerged as a winner holding the mantle of the party for 20 years.
Sonia Gandhi is the longest-serving president of the party, having held the office for over twenty years from 1998 to 2017 and since 2019.
This time no member of the Gandhi family is contesting for the post of President.
This is the sixth time in its nearly 137-year-old history that polls will be held to elect the President of the party. In the 2017 elections, Rahul Gandhi became the president unopposed.
Apart from the Congress headquarters in the states, the voting facilities will also be available at the party’s central headquarters at 24 Akbar Road.
In Delhi, those delegates can cast their vote who have obtained prior permission from the Central Election Authority to cast their vote in Delhi instead of their own state.
Congress Working Committee members including Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh and Priyanka Gandhi and some senior leaders will vote in the booth at the Congress headquarters.
About 40 delegates involved in the Bharat Jodo Yatra, including Rahul Gandhi, will be able to cast their vote in the camp itself.
A polling station is being set up at the Sanganakallu campsite in Bellary.
While the two contestants Shashi Tharoor and Mallikarjun Kharge will cast their votes in their respective state’s headquarters Trivendram and Bengaluru
After voting, the ballot boxes from all the states will be brought back to Delhi, where the results will be announced after the counting of votes on October 19.
