Polls to elect president of Indian National Congress tomorrow, All is set to hold the polls tomorrow to elect the president of the Indian National Congress, the grand old party of the country.
Polls to elect president of Indian National Congress tomorrow
As many as 9,000 Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) have the voting right to elect its president through direct voting from 10 am to 4 pm tomorrow. The result is likely to be declared on October 19, local media reported. Senior party leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor are contesting against each other for the presidential post as Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra opted out from the party’s highest post.
It would be the sixth time in the party’s nearly 137-year-old history that an electoral contest would decide who would take up the mantle of the party’s president. Since Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra are not contesting for the party president’s post, a non-Gandhi would be at the helm after over 24 years following tomorrow’s polling.
According to media reports, Kharge is considered the firm favorite and the ‘unofficial official candidate’ with a large number of senior leaders backing him while Tharoor has pitched himself as the candidate of change. During the campaign, even though Tharoor has raised issues of an uneven playing field, both candidates and the party have maintained that the Gandhis are neutral and that there is no “official candidate.”
Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa. From the late 19th century, and especially after 1920, under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, Congress became the principal leader of the Indian independence movement.
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