Mallikarjun Kharge elected president of India's Congress party

Mallikarjun Kharge elected president of India's Congress party

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Category : Appointment/Resignation Published on: October 21 2022

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Veteran Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge has been elected as the new party chief after he polled nearly 8,000 votes in the presidential election.
Kharge will formally take over as party chief on October 26.
Around 9,500 party delegates voted in the election. Kharge received 7,897 votes while Tharoor got 1,072 votes.
Mallikarjun Kharge becomes the first non-Gandhi Congress president in 24 years, and the first Scheduled Caste chief of the grand old organization in four decades.
This was the first election for the post of Congress president in 22 years and only the fifth major contest in the party's 137 year history.
Prior to this, in 2000, Sonia Gandhi defeated Jitendra Prasad by 7448 votes for the post of president.

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