Congress presidential polls: Voting begins in Kharge vs Tharoor contest
By PTI
NEW DELHI: Voting started on Monday within the Congress presidential polls as senior leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor face off for the publish of AICC chief.
Over 9,000 Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) delegates kind the electoral school to choose the occasion chief in a secret poll.
Voting started at 10 am on the AICC headquarters right here and on the occasion’s polling cubicles in state workplaces throughout the nation.
Veteran Congress chief P Chidambaram was the primary to solid his vote on the AICC headquarters right here, sources mentioned.
Kharge is taken into account the favorite for his perceived proximity to the Gandhis and backing by senior leaders, whilst Tharoor has pitched himself because the candidate of change.
During the marketing campaign, regardless that Tharoor raised problems with an uneven enjoying discipline, each candidates and the occasion have maintained that the Gandhis are impartial and that there isn’t a “official candidate”.
While occasion chief Sonia Gandhi and Congress common secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra are anticipated to vote on the AICC headquarters right here, Rahul Gandhi will likely be voting on the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ campsite in Karnataka’s Sanganakallu in Ballari together with round 40 different ‘Bharat Yatris’ who’re PCC delegates.
Tharoor will solid his vote on the Kerala Congress headquarters at Thiruvananthapuram, whereas Kharge will accomplish that on the Karnataka Congress workplace in Bengaluru.
Ahead of the polling, Kharge had mentioned he would haven’t any disgrace in taking the recommendation and help of the Gandhi household in operating the occasion affairs, in case he turns into its president, as they’ve struggled and put their power for its progress.
The veteran chief had mentioned he’s the “delegates’ candidate” in these polls.
Tharoor on his half had taken a veiled dig at some senior leaders supporting Kharge, saying some colleagues have been “indulging in ‘netagiri’ and telling party workers” that they know whom Sonia Gandhi desires elected.
If anybody has “fear or doubt” of their thoughts, the occasion has made it clear that it is going to be a secret poll, he had mentioned in Lucknow on Sunday and urged the Congress delegates to hearken to their hearts whereas voting to elect the brand new occasion president.
While the Kharge camp had shared a marketing campaign video looking for votes for him which included visuals of him strolling with Rahul Gandhi within the Bharat Jodo Yatra with the music ‘Kandhon se milte hain kandhe’ from the film Lakshya enjoying within the background, Tharoor had issued a fervent video enchantment on Twitter calling on electors to indicate braveness to “embrace change”.
Tharoor had asserted that within the change he envisions, the occasion’s “values and loyalties” will stay the identical with solely the methods of reaching the targets present process a metamorphosis.
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Electors within the Congress presidential polls have been requested to place a tick mark towards the identify of their alternative on the poll paper after AICC president candidate Tharoor’s crew took up with the occasion’s prime ballot physique the difficulty of its earlier directive that voters write “1” to replicate their choice, citing that it might result in confusion.
“The voters are instructed to put a tick mark in the box in front of the candidate whom they wish to vote for. Putting any other symbol or writing a number would make the vote invalid,” the directive from Mistry’s workplace had mentioned.
Asked in regards to the significance of the polls, Congress common secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh had advised PTI that he has at all times believed within the Congress mannequin of evolving a consensus for such positions.
NEW DELHI: Voting started on Monday within the Congress presidential polls as senior leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor face off for the publish of AICC chief.
Over 9,000 Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) delegates kind the electoral school to choose the occasion chief in a secret poll.
Voting started at 10 am on the AICC headquarters right here and on the occasion’s polling cubicles in state workplaces throughout the nation.
Veteran Congress chief P Chidambaram was the primary to solid his vote on the AICC headquarters right here, sources mentioned.
Kharge is taken into account the favorite for his perceived proximity to the Gandhis and backing by senior leaders, whilst Tharoor has pitched himself because the candidate of change.
During the marketing campaign, regardless that Tharoor raised problems with an uneven enjoying discipline, each candidates and the occasion have maintained that the Gandhis are impartial and that there isn’t a “official candidate”.
While occasion chief Sonia Gandhi and Congress common secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra are anticipated to vote on the AICC headquarters right here, Rahul Gandhi will likely be voting on the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ campsite in Karnataka’s Sanganakallu in Ballari together with round 40 different ‘Bharat Yatris’ who’re PCC delegates.
Tharoor will solid his vote on the Kerala Congress headquarters at Thiruvananthapuram, whereas Kharge will accomplish that on the Karnataka Congress workplace in Bengaluru.
Ahead of the polling, Kharge had mentioned he would haven’t any disgrace in taking the recommendation and help of the Gandhi household in operating the occasion affairs, in case he turns into its president, as they’ve struggled and put their power for its progress.
The veteran chief had mentioned he’s the “delegates’ candidate” in these polls.
Tharoor on his half had taken a veiled dig at some senior leaders supporting Kharge, saying some colleagues have been “indulging in ‘netagiri’ and telling party workers” that they know whom Sonia Gandhi desires elected.
If anybody has “fear or doubt” of their thoughts, the occasion has made it clear that it is going to be a secret poll, he had mentioned in Lucknow on Sunday and urged the Congress delegates to hearken to their hearts whereas voting to elect the brand new occasion president.
While the Kharge camp had shared a marketing campaign video looking for votes for him which included visuals of him strolling with Rahul Gandhi within the Bharat Jodo Yatra with the music ‘Kandhon se milte hain kandhe’ from the film Lakshya enjoying within the background, Tharoor had issued a fervent video enchantment on Twitter calling on electors to indicate braveness to “embrace change”.
Tharoor had asserted that within the change he envisions, the occasion’s “values and loyalties” will stay the identical with solely the methods of reaching the targets present process a metamorphosis.
ALSO READ: Sixth time in its 137-year-history Congress all set to have inner elections for its president
Electors within the Congress presidential polls have been requested to place a tick mark towards the identify of their alternative on the poll paper after AICC president candidate Tharoor’s crew took up with the occasion’s prime ballot physique the difficulty of its earlier directive that voters write “1” to replicate their choice, citing that it might result in confusion.
“The voters are instructed to put a tick mark in the box in front of the candidate whom they wish to vote for. Putting any other symbol or writing a number would make the vote invalid,” the directive from Mistry’s workplace had mentioned.
Asked in regards to the significance of the polls, Congress common secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh had advised PTI that he has at all times believed within the Congress mannequin of evolving a consensus for such positions.
