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While Kharge is considered the firm favourite with his perceived proximity to the Gandhis and a large number of senior leaders backing him, Tharoor has pitched himself as the candidate of change.
Here’s all you need to know about result day:
- The counting of votes will begin at 10am on Wednesday at the AICC headquarters in New Delhi.
- The process of bringing all the ballot boxes from the 68 polling booths set up across the country by the party will be completed by Tuesday evening. The sealed boxes will be kept in a “strong room” at the party HQ till the time of counting.
- The sealed ballot boxes will be opened before the candidates’ agents and the votes will be mixed repeatedly as they are added from various boxes. This is to ensure that neither candidate will be able to tell who voted for them and from which state.
- Congress central election authority chairman Madhusudan
Mistry has expressed satisfaction with the party’s presidential polls process, saying it was “free, fair and transparent”. He has also assured that it was a secret ballot and no one would get to know who voted for whom. - 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, Mistry said at a press conference after the polling ended on Monday. Voter turnout was 96%. - The Congress has claimed that its internal democracy has no parallel in any other party and it is the only one to have a central election authority for organisational polls.
- Congress central election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry is expected to announce the winner after counting of votes.
This was the sixth time in the party’s nearly 137-year-old history that an electoral contest is deciding who will take up the mantle of the party’s president.
The current polls are historic as the new president would replace Sonia Gandhi, the longest-serving party president who has been at the helm since 1998, barring the two years between 2017 and 2019 when Rahul Gandhi had taken over.
The Nehru-Gandhi family has been at the helm of the party for about 40 years since Independence.
The five family members to take on the mantle of the Congress president are Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
Kharge vs Tharoor
During the campaign, even though Tharoor has raised issues of uneven playing field, both candidates and the party have maintained that the Gandhis are neutral and that there is no “official candidate”.
The contrast in the campaigns has been stark, while Kharge’s campaign has seen several senior leaders, PCC chiefs and top leaders receiving him at the state headquarters visited by him, Tharoor has mostly been welcomed by young PCC delegates with PCC chiefs mostly absent from his events.
Tharoor has underlined during his campaign that he is the candidate of change while Kharge is the ‘candidate of continuity’.
He has also claimed that youngsters and people in lower levels of the party are supporting him, while seniors are backing his rival.
Kharge, on his part, has highlighted his experience, coming up the organisational ranks over decades and his ability to take everyone along.
Both the leaders have emphasised that the Gandhis hold a special place in the party with Kharge saying that he would seek their “guidance” and “suggestions”, and Tharoor asserting that no Congress president can function keeping a distance from the Gandhi family “as their DNA runs in the party’s blood”.
(With inputs from agencies)
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