Congress president elections: Counting of votes to happen at 10 am; Mallikarjun Kharge, Shashi Tharoor in fray

Counting of votes for the Congress celebration president election is scheduled to happen right this moment at 10 am. Its outcomes are prone to be revealed anyplace between 3 pm to 4 pm. Voting befell on October 17 from 10 am to 4 pm throughout 67 polling cubicles in India.

Greater than 9,500 delegates voted within the election. Former Union Ministers and Members of Parliament Mallikarjun Kharge and Dr Shashi Tharoor are within the fray to get the highest job within the grand previous celebration.  

In a primary, the Election Fee issued a QR-coded ID card to the delegates. Congress Working Committee (CWC) members like Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Dr Manmohan Singh and another senior leaders forged their votes on the polling sales space at 24 Akbar Highway. Former celebration president Rahul Gandhi forged his vote from Karnataka’s Ballari as he’s at present on the Bharat Jodo Yatra.

That is additionally the primary time in 24 years that the celebration will get a non-Gandhi president with Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Rahul Gandhi out of the race.

Previous to Gandhi’s election because the celebration president in 1998, veteran Congress chief Sitaram Kesri held the publish from September 23, 1996 to March 14, 1998. Kesri had received towards the present Nationalist Congress Celebration (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar and Rajesh Pilot.

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