On Friday, the final day for submitting nominations for Congress Presidential elections, the three had done so.
K N Tripathi, a former minister for Jharkhand, had his nomination for the top position in the Congress denied on Saturday.
Mallikarjun Kharge, a former leader of the opposition, and Shashi Tharoor, a congressman, will face off in the final round.
Madhusudan Mistry, chairman of the AICC Central Election Authority, stated during a media conference there at Congress headquarters that a total of 20 nomination forms were submitted during the nomination process, and four of them were rejected.
Shashi Tharoor filed five forms, Tripathi one, and Mallikarjun Kharge fourteen.
According to Mistry, Tripathi’s form was denied because one of his proposers’ signatures did not match another’s, and then another proposer’s sign was duplicated.
Senior Congress politician & MP Shashi Tharoor claimed in an interview with media outlet ANI that common people advised him to run for office, that he wanted the party to grow, and that he also wanted to become a “voice of change” inside the party.
The Thiruvananthapuram-based Congress MP added, “I’m suggesting that if you’re content with the work the party is doing, vote for Khargesahab.
I’m here if you want to change. The Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, who faced criticism on social media for publishing his policy platform (for the contest) with an India map that omits parts of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, apologized for the incident and claimed: “no one did such things on purpose.” However, there is no ideological problem.
After more than 25 years, the grand old party is prepared to elect a leader who is not Gandhi. On October 17, voting will be conducted, and on October 19, the results will be made public.
Author: Astha Singh
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