Counting of votes cast in the election for a new Congress President will begin on Wednesday as the party is set to witness a non-Gandhi occupying the top post after more than two decades.
If in 2006, Shashi Tharoor suffered a jolt when the US vetoed his candidature to the UN Secretary general post, 16 years later his political fate in India will be decided when Congress votes to choose its president on Monday.
About 9,300 Congress delegates will vote on Monday to elect a new party President between the two contenders in the fray -- Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor.
About 9,300 Congress delegates will vote on Monday to elect a new party President between the two contenders in the fray -- Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor.
After the date of withdrawal of nominations for the Congress presidential poll, the party now has two contestants -- Shashi Tharoor and Mallikarjun Kharge -- for the October 17 polls, in which 67 booths have been set up in…
Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge has emerged as the favourite for the party's presidential poll among the cadres in Tamil Nadu after a majority shunned a meeting called by fellow contestant Shashi Tharoor.