Mallikarjun Kharge Kharge Elected As Congress President; First Non-Gandhi In 24-Year

DN Bureau

Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday won Congress Presidential Elections against Shashi Tharoor. Read more on Dynamite News:

Mallikarjun Kharge wins Congress Presidential Elections
Mallikarjun Kharge wins Congress Presidential Elections


New Delhi: Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday won the Congress Presidential Elections against Shashi Tharoor.

Karti Chidambaram, a counting agent for Tharoor, declared after the counting process was over that Kharge had won the polls and the Kerala MP had got 1,072 votes.

Of the total 9,915 Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) delegates that formed the electoral college to pick the party chief in a secret ballot, over 9,500 cast their ballot at PCC offices and the AICC headquarters on Monday.

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The results will be officially declared in a short while.

Kharge would be the first non-Gandhi president in 24 years. (with PTI inputs)










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