Shillong, Oct 19: Mallikarjun Kharge won the Congress presidential elections on Wednesday. The election was held on Oct 17 with Shashi Tharoor as one of the contenders for the race.
Kharge won the Congress presidential elections with 7,897 votes while Shashi Tharoor secured almost 1000 votes; 416 votes were rejected.
This is the first time in 24 years that the party is getting a chief who does not belong to the Nehru-Gandhi family. The new president will take the place of Sonia Gandhi who had been serving as interim president after Rahul Gandhi stepped down from the post in 2019.
Tharoor congratulated the newly elected AICC president through a tweet. “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,” he tweeted.
