Mallikarjun Kharge elected new president of Congress celebration

Congress celebration has elected Mallikarjun Kharge as its first non-Gandhi president in additional than twenty years. Kharge gained a landslide victory, securing eight occasions extra votes than Shashi Tharoor.

On Monday, round 9,500 Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) delegates from throughout India voted to elect a brand new celebration president, making a alternative between Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor to succeed Sonia Gandhi. Mallikarjun Kharge bought 7897 votes, whereas Shashi Tharoor gained 1072 votes. 416 votes have been rejected, in accordance with experiences.

Mallikarjun Kharge is changing Sonia Gandhi, who has been the longest-serving president of the Congress celebration. She has been main the celebration since 1998, barring the 2 years between 2017 and 2019 when her son Rahul Gandhi was made the president.

Shashi Tharoor had positioned himself as a candidate for change, emphasizing the necessity for a change in how the celebration operates, whereas Mallikarjun Kharge was generally known as the ‘unofficial official candidate’ on account of his unfaltering loyalty to the Gandhi household.

After the outcomes of the elections got here out, the Congress MP and celebration president candidate Shashi Tharoor congratulated Mallikarjun Kharge. He stated that call of the celebration delegates is last and he accepts it humbly.

“It is a great honor & a huge responsibility to be President of @INCIndia &I wish @Kharge ji all success in that task. It was a privilege to have received the support of over a thousand colleagues,& to carry the hopes& aspirations of so many well-wishers of Congress across India,” Tharoor tweeted.

It is a superb honour & an enormous duty to be President of @INCIndia &I want @Kharge ji all success in that activity. It was a privilege to have obtained the help of over a thousand colleagues,& to hold the hopes& aspirations of so many well-wishers of Congress throughout India. pic.twitter.com/NistXfQGN1

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) October 19, 2022

Tharoor thanked Sonia Gandhi for her management of the celebration for 1 / 4 of a century and thanked Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi for making certain free and impartial elections. However, he acknowledged that the celebration will proceed to be truly led by the Gandhi household ever after the election of a brand new president. He stated he hopes and believes that the household will stay the foundational pillar of the Congress, their ethical conscience and supreme guiding spirit. He added, “In particular, the spectacular success of the ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra is a testament to the family’s enduring appeal to the masses.”

Even although each candidates maintained that interim Congress President Sonia Gandhi was fully neutral throughout this election, Shashi Tharoor claimed that a number of state celebration chiefs have been unavailable to satisfy him when he visited their states, despite the fact that they confirmed their help and met Mallikarjun Kharge when he went there to hunt help.

The celebration presidential election has been marred by controversy since its inception, which was necessitated after former president Rahul Gandhi resigned in July 2019 following the celebration’s defeat within the Lok Sabha elections. Following this, Sonia Gandhi was appointed because the celebration’s interim president.

Then there was the G23 (Group of 23 Leaders) disaster. Following the debacle of the Lok Sabha elections, the G-23 leaders wrote to Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi in August 2020, requesting an organisational overhaul and inside elections in any respect ranges. With the exception of a gathering of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) and a closed-door session with Rahul Gandhi, this elicited little response from the management, ensuing into to elevated inside battle.

Sonia Gandhi has been the President of the Congress for the previous twenty years. In reality, the Nehru-Gandhi household has dominated the celebration since 1978, apart from transient intervals between 1992 and 1998 when PV Narasimha Rao and Sitaram Kesri have been in cost. Sitaram Kesri was the final non-Gandhi household chief to carry the highest management place of the Congress celebration, and his departure was one of the vital controversial.