Mallikarjun Kharge Is New President Of Indian National Congress

Mr. Mallikarjun Kharge, the senior leader of the Indian National Congress (INC) has been elected as the President of the party.

On the 19th of October, Wednesday, after rounds of counting of votes, Mr. Mallikarjun Kharge has received 7,897 votes against Mr. Shashi Tharoor, the opposition of Mr. Mallikarjun Kharge for the INC Presidential elections.  Mr. Pramod Tiwari on Wednesday confirmed the same and said, “Mallikarjun Kharge wins the Congress presidential elections with 7,897 votes, Shashi Tharoor got about 1000 votes.  Kharge has won with 8 times more votes.”

After the defeat of Mr. Shashi Tharoor, he took to Twitter and said, “It is a great honour & 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.” 

It is to be noted, on the 17th of October, Monday, approximately 9,500 delegates of the INC, cast their votes.  The voters include the outgoing NC President Ms. Sonia Gandhi, the All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary Ms. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and former PM Of India Mr. Manmohan Singh.

As per the Indian National Congress, the elected president Mr. Malliakarjun Kharge would take charge after Diwali in the presence of senior leaders during a programme organised at the Congress headquarters.

Furthermore, this would be the first time in the past twenty decades (20 years) that the Indian National Congress would have a non Gandhi President of the party.

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