Over 9,500 delegates have voted to elect a new Congress president from...
Digital Desk: The counting for the first non-Gandhi chief of the All India Congress Party (INC) will take place today. This is the party’s internal election and it’s being held after 20 years. Veteran leader Mallikarjun Kharge is battling head-to-head against Shashi Tharoor.
Over 9,500 delegates voted to elect a new Congress president from outside the Nehru-Gandhi family on October 17.
For the last three years, the post has been held by interim chief Sonia Gandhi after Rahul Gandhi stepped down in 2019.
Tharoor, who comes from the Nair community of Kerala, has studied at premier institutions in India and the US, including St Stephen's College in Delhi and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Massachusetts He completed a Ph.D in 1978 from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
On the other hand, Kharge has more than 50 years of experience in politics. He remained as an MLA for 9 terms and was earlier pitched as a Dalit leader by his party colleagues.
"I have been waiting for a long time for this day," Ms. Sonia Gandhi said after voting at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters.
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