No shock as Kharge wins Congress ballot

Express News Service

NEW DELHI:  Veteran Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge emerged victorious within the presidential elections held on Monday, changing into the primary non-Gandhi household chief to go the grand outdated celebration in 24 years. He will formally take over the place of Sonia Gandhi on October 26.

Kharge, a staunch Gandhi household loyalist who was broadly perceived to be the ‘official’ candidate, defeated his rival Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor by a margin of over 6,000 votes. While the Karnataka chief secured 7,897 votes, Tharoor managed to get 1,072 out of the over 9,300 votes polled.

While congratulations poured in for Kharge on his new accountability, the 80-yearold Dalit chief expressed his resolve to ‘fight against conspiracies to kill democracy’. In his first press convention after being elected the AICC chief, Kharge thanked interim chief Sonia Gandhi, the longest-serving Congress president, highlighting the private sacrifices she made for the celebration.

The election is important for the Congress within the sense that the competition for the highest put up occurred after a spot of twenty years. The final election for the put up of president was held in 2000, by which Sonia gained with a thumping majority trouncing rival candidate Jitendra Prasada.

The elevation of Kharge, a Dalit chief from Karnataka, is predicted to spice up the celebration’s prospects within the Assembly elections subsequent 12 months in addition to within the 2024 normal elections. Although Kharge’s victory was a foregone conclusion, analysts say Tharoor bagging 12% of the votes polled was equally spectacular. Tharoor, who had raised allegations of preferential remedy to Kharge by senior celebration leaders and an ‘uneven pitch’ throughout his campaigns, reiterated his claims even after the outcomes had been out.

In a letter to the celebration’s chief electoral officer Madhusudan Mistry, Tharoor’s marketing campaign staff member Salman Soz stated, “The facts are damning and the election process in Uttar Pradesh is devoid of credibility and integrity.”

The letter alleged using unofficial seals for poll containers and the presence of unofficial individuals in polling cubicles. Talking to reporters later, Tharoor stated he didn’t pitch himself as a candidate of dissent. “I was a candidate for change,” he stated. On the dearth of a level-playing discipline, he stated “I continued to bat on an uneven pitch… There were bound to be glitches in the process.”

Rahul shall be PM face: Gaurav Gogoi
Amid questions over the position of Rahul Gandhi within the celebration after Kharge grew to become the Congress chief, senior celebration chief Gaurav Gogoi stated Rahul would be the prime ministerial face of the celebration within the 2024 normal elections. “It is evident that Rahul Gandhi is the PM face for 2024. There are many Congress workers who feel that Rahul is the best person to be PM,” he stated

NEW DELHI:  Veteran Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge emerged victorious within the presidential elections held on Monday, changing into the primary non-Gandhi household chief to go the grand outdated celebration in 24 years. He will formally take over the place of Sonia Gandhi on October 26.

Kharge, a staunch Gandhi household loyalist who was broadly perceived to be the ‘official’ candidate, defeated his rival Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor by a margin of over 6,000 votes. While the Karnataka chief secured 7,897 votes, Tharoor managed to get 1,072 out of the over 9,300 votes polled.

While congratulations poured in for Kharge on his new accountability, the 80-yearold Dalit chief expressed his resolve to ‘fight against conspiracies to kill democracy’. In his first press convention after being elected the AICC chief, Kharge thanked interim chief Sonia Gandhi, the longest-serving Congress president, highlighting the private sacrifices she made for the celebration.

The election is important for the Congress within the sense that the competition for the highest put up occurred after a spot of twenty years. The final election for the put up of president was held in 2000, by which Sonia gained with a thumping majority trouncing rival candidate Jitendra Prasada.

The elevation of Kharge, a Dalit chief from Karnataka, is predicted to spice up the celebration’s prospects within the Assembly elections subsequent 12 months in addition to within the 2024 normal elections. Although Kharge’s victory was a foregone conclusion, analysts say Tharoor bagging 12% of the votes polled was equally spectacular. Tharoor, who had raised allegations of preferential remedy to Kharge by senior celebration leaders and an ‘uneven pitch’ throughout his campaigns, reiterated his claims even after the outcomes had been out.

In a letter to the celebration’s chief electoral officer Madhusudan Mistry, Tharoor’s marketing campaign staff member Salman Soz stated, “The facts are damning and the election process in Uttar Pradesh is devoid of credibility and integrity.”

The letter alleged using unofficial seals for poll containers and the presence of unofficial individuals in polling cubicles. Talking to reporters later, Tharoor stated he didn’t pitch himself as a candidate of dissent. “I was a candidate for change,” he stated. On the dearth of a level-playing discipline, he stated “I continued to bat on an uneven pitch… There were bound to be glitches in the process.”

Rahul shall be PM face: Gaurav Gogoi
Amid questions over the position of Rahul Gandhi within the celebration after Kharge grew to become the Congress chief, senior celebration chief Gaurav Gogoi stated Rahul would be the prime ministerial face of the celebration within the 2024 normal elections. “It is evident that Rahul Gandhi is the PM face for 2024. There are many Congress workers who feel that Rahul is the best person to be PM,” he stated