GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 17th Oct. Shashi Tharoor is running against Mallikarjun Kharge in the Congress presidential election, which began at 10 a.m. today.
A total of 9,000 Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) delegates will vote to choose a Congress president. The voting will end today at 4 p.m., and the results will be announced on October 19.
The party will elect a non-Gandhi to its top post for the first time in 24 years. Earlier, Jairam Ramesh, the party’s communications in-charge, stated that Rahul Gandhi, who is currently on a Bharat Jodo Yatra, will vote in Karnataka alongside 40 other PCC candidates.
Sonia Gandhi, the party’s interim president, led the party for the longest time, from 1998 to 2017, after which Rahul Gandhi took over as president. After Rahul Gandhi stepped down in 2019, Sonia Gandhi became the party’s interim leader.
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