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THE TIMES OF INDIA | Oct 19, 2022, 22:02:28 IST
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Congress President Election Results 2022 LIVE Updates: Kharge's win shows Sonia Gandhi last word in party, says Cong leader Ashwani Kumar
Mallikarjun Kharge has been elected new Congress president. The counting for the election held on october 17 was conducted today. Congress' central election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry announced after the counting of votes that of the 9,385 votes polled in the Congress president poll, Kharge got 7,897 votes and Shashi Tharoor 1,072 votes, while 416 votes were declared invalid. Stay with TOI for the latest developments
10:28 (IST) Oct 19
Congress central election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry has expressed satisfaction with the party's presidential polls process, saying it was "free, fair and transparent"
10:27 (IST) Oct 19
Karti Chidambaram, Atul Chaturvedi and Sumedh Gaikwal are among those who are counting agents of Tharoor
10:26 (IST) Oct 19
The counting agents of Kharge are Pramod Tiwari, Kodikunil Suresh, Gaurav Gogoi, Syed Nasir Hussain, Kuljit Singh Bagra and Gurdeep Singh Sappal
10:26 (IST) Oct 19
Counting agents of both candidates present at AICC headquarters
10:25 (IST) Oct 19
Interim president Sonia Gandhi has been Congress chief for the most number of years (1998-2017 & 2019-2022)
10:24 (IST) Oct 19
Sitaram Kesri was the last non-Gandhi to lead the Congress
Kesri was Congress chief 1996-98
10:12 (IST) Oct 19
Counting begins after mixing ballot papers from various states
09:46 (IST) Oct 19
Gaurav Gogoi,counting agent of candidate Mallikarjun Kharge arrives at AICC HQ
09:45 (IST) Oct 19
Central Election Authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry arrives at the party HQ in Delhi
09:19 (IST) Oct 19
Ballot papers will be mixed before counting so that state-wise votes polled by candidates remain confidential
08:34 (IST) Oct 19
Counting of votes will begin at 10am at the AICC headquarters in Delhi
07:35 (IST) Oct 19
The result is likely to be declared between 3 pm to 4 pm. The ballot boxes from the state headquarters have reached the counting place in the Congress office.
07:16 (IST) Oct 19
It is the sixth time in Congress' nearly 137-year-old history that an electoral contest is deciding who would take up the mantle of the party's president as successor to Sonia Gandhi.
07:06 (IST) Oct 19
Mistry has also assured that it was a secret ballot and no one would get to know who voted for whom.
07:06 (IST) Oct 19
Congress central election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry has expressed satisfaction with the party's presidential polls process, saying it was "free, fair and transparent".
05:40 (IST) Oct 19
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.
05:40 (IST) Oct 19
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.
05:40 (IST) Oct 19
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.
05:40 (IST) Oct 19
The counting of votes will begin at 10am on Wednesday at the AICC headquarters in New Delhi.
05:40 (IST) Oct 19
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.
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