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.<\/p>\n
The voting will be done between 10 am and 4 pm on Monday, the results will be declared on October 19.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Apart from the Congress headquarters in the states, the voting facilities will also be available at the party\u2019s central headquarters at 24 Akbar Road.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
About 40 delegates involved in the Bharat Jodo Yatra, including Rahul Gandhi, will be able to cast their vote in the camp itself.<\/p>\n
A polling station is being set up at the Sanganakallu campsite in Bellary.<\/p>\n
While the two contestants Shashi Tharoor and Mallikarjun Kharge will cast their votes in their respective state\u2019s headquarters Trivendram and Bengaluru<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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