Congress presidential polls: Counting of votes begins in Kharge vs Tharoor contest

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The counting of votes started on Wednesday within the Congress presidential polls wherein senior leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor confronted off for the submit of AICC chief.

The counting of the votes, which was scheduled to start at 10 am on the AICC headquarters right here, began round 10:20 am.

All sealed poll bins from the 68 polling cubicles arrange throughout the nation had been introduced right here by Tuesday night and saved in a “strong room” on the social gathering workplace.

Asked about reviews of complaints associated to polling in Uttar Pradesh and another states, Tharoor marketing campaign crew member Salman Soz mentioned they’ve raised sure points with the central election authority (CEA) and have been in communication with CEA chairman Madhusudan Mistry “before polling, on polling day and after that”.

The counting brokers of Kharge are Pramod Tiwari, Kodikunil Suresh, Gaurav Gogoi, Syed Nasir Hussain, Kuljit Singh Bagra and Gurdeep Singh Sappal.

Karti Chidambaram, Atul Chaturvedi and Sumedh Gaikwad are amongst those that are counting brokers of Tharoor.

While Kharge is taken into account the agency favorite along with his perceived proximity to the Gandhis and numerous senior leaders backing him, Tharoor has pitched himself because the candidate of change.

Congress central election authority chairman Mistry has expressed satisfaction with the social gathering’s presidential polls course of, saying it was “free, fair and transparent”.

He has additionally mentioned it was a secret poll and nobody would get to know who voted for whom.

Of the entire 9,915 Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) delegates that fashioned the electoral school to select the social gathering chief in a secret poll, over 9,500 solid their poll at PCC places of work and the AICC headquarters, Mistry had mentioned at a press convention after the polling ended on Monday.

The social gathering will get its first non-Gandhi president in 24 years after greater than 9,500 votes are counted.

The polls are historic as the brand new president would substitute Sonia Gandhi, the longest-serving social gathering president who has been on the helm since 1998, barring the 2 years between 2017 and 2019 when Rahul Gandhi had taken over.

Electors within the Congress presidential polls had been requested to place a tick mark towards their candidate within the poll paper after Tharoor’s crew took up with the social gathering’s high ballot physique the difficulty of its earlier directive that voters write “1” to replicate their choice.

This, the crew mentioned, may result in confusion.

NEW DELHI: The counting of votes started on Wednesday within the Congress presidential polls wherein senior leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor confronted off for the submit of AICC chief.

The counting of the votes, which was scheduled to start at 10 am on the AICC headquarters right here, began round 10:20 am.

All sealed poll bins from the 68 polling cubicles arrange throughout the nation had been introduced right here by Tuesday night and saved in a “strong room” on the social gathering workplace.

Asked about reviews of complaints associated to polling in Uttar Pradesh and another states, Tharoor marketing campaign crew member Salman Soz mentioned they’ve raised sure points with the central election authority (CEA) and have been in communication with CEA chairman Madhusudan Mistry “before polling, on polling day and after that”.

The counting brokers of Kharge are Pramod Tiwari, Kodikunil Suresh, Gaurav Gogoi, Syed Nasir Hussain, Kuljit Singh Bagra and Gurdeep Singh Sappal.

Karti Chidambaram, Atul Chaturvedi and Sumedh Gaikwad are amongst those that are counting brokers of Tharoor.

While Kharge is taken into account the agency favorite along with his perceived proximity to the Gandhis and numerous senior leaders backing him, Tharoor has pitched himself because the candidate of change.

Congress central election authority chairman Mistry has expressed satisfaction with the social gathering’s presidential polls course of, saying it was “free, fair and transparent”.

He has additionally mentioned it was a secret poll and nobody would get to know who voted for whom.

Of the entire 9,915 Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) delegates that fashioned the electoral school to select the social gathering chief in a secret poll, over 9,500 solid their poll at PCC places of work and the AICC headquarters, Mistry had mentioned at a press convention after the polling ended on Monday.

The social gathering will get its first non-Gandhi president in 24 years after greater than 9,500 votes are counted.

The polls are historic as the brand new president would substitute Sonia Gandhi, the longest-serving social gathering president who has been on the helm since 1998, barring the 2 years between 2017 and 2019 when Rahul Gandhi had taken over.

Electors within the Congress presidential polls had been requested to place a tick mark towards their candidate within the poll paper after Tharoor’s crew took up with the social gathering’s high ballot physique the difficulty of its earlier directive that voters write “1” to replicate their choice.

This, the crew mentioned, may result in confusion.