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Gujarat poll: PM Modi turns election into a personal battle, once again

NEW DELHI: As campaigning for the Gujarat assembly election peaks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sought to turn it into a personal battle. The development is akin to similar instances in the past when he hit out at the Congress for making personal and unsavoury comments against him and turned…

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Sonia Gandhi: Mallikarjun Kharge Will Inspire The Party As President

"I extend my heartiest congratulations to the newly elected president Mallikarjun Kharge. Change is the rule of the world... Congress had faced a lot of difficulties earlier as well. But I am sure we will overcome the problems," said the outgoing Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Read on for details:

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Mallikarjun Kharge Takes Charge As Congress President

Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday took charge as Congress President in the presence of Gandhi family's. Read on for details:

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5 ways in which Kharge vs Tharoor mirrors Sonia Gandhi vs Jitendra Prasada election for Congress president’s post

NEW DELHI: The Congress party on Wednesday finally elected its first non-Nehru-Gandhi president in 24 years when former leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge trounced Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor in the election which was held on October 17.

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‘Unsurprising’: What the papers say about Mallikarjun Kharge’s election as Congress president

Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge won the party’s presidential election on Wednesday. He was up against party MP Shashi Tharoor. The party’s election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry announced that Kharge had received 7,897 of the 9,385 polled votes and Tharoor 1,072.

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Congress Presidential Election: Jairam Ramesh Hails Polls As Historic

Jairam Ramesh said that the Congress is the only political party that has elections for the post of president and also the only one to have a TN Seshan-like central election authority chairman in Madhusudan Mistry. Read more on Dynamite News:

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Kharge vs Tharoor: Inside the campaign to elect the new Congress president

“Hello sir, I am calling from Shashi Tharoor sir’s office. You know elections are coming and both Kharge and Tharoor sahib are the choice of Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi ji,” a canvasser for Shashi Tharoor solicits the support of a Congress delegate from Amethi. “Please vote carefully.”

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Congress president polls | It’s Mallikarjun Kharge vs Shashi Tharoor as Tripathi’s nomination is rejected

Congress poll panel chairman Madhusudan Mistry said Mr. Tripathi's form was rejected as the signature of one of his proposers did not match and another proposer's signature was repeated.

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Gandhi loyalist, ex-UN diplomat in race to lead India's opposition Congress party

An ex-United Nations diplomat and a veteran politician emerged on Friday as contenders to lead India's main opposition Congress party as it prepares to elect a new president from outside the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty for the first time in nearly 25 years.

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Pawan Bansal got Congress presidential poll forms collected, may be for someone else: Madhusudan Mistry

Pawan Bansal, however, later said he was ‘not in the race for party president’s post’

The Hindu

Congress issues notification for AICC president polls

The process of filing the nomination will take place from September 24 to September 30 and the results will be declared on October 19

The Hindu

Congress's central election authority issues notification for AICC president polls

NEW DELHI: Will Congress finally have a non-Gandhi president? If that happens, it will be a first since 2000. Come October 19 and we will have a definitive answer as the party has set the ball rolling for electing the successor to the longest-serving chief Sonia Gandhi.

The Times of India

Congress presidential polls: Shashi Tharoor meets Madhusudan Mistry, enquires about nomination formalities

NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, who is preparing to contest the AICC president polls, met the party's central election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry on Wednesday and enquired about nomination formalities.

The Times of India

Rahul Gandhi the acknowledged leader of Congress: Chidambaram

P. Chidambaram said that if Rahul Gandhi is elected Congress president, he will be both leader and president, but if he is not, he will remain the acknowledged leader of the party

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Congress presidential election | Nothing to hide, says party poll panel chief

New president can appoint State chiefs as per the resolutions by PCC delegates

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Congress to put out electoral rolls

Congress poll panel chief replies to Lok Sabha members who questioned the election process

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Five Congress MPs write to Mistry, express concern over transparency, fairness of party chief polls

The letter came a day after the party launched its ambitious ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ from Kanyakumari to Kashmir on Wednesday.

The Hindu

Congress president election exposes deep fault lines

Shashi Tharoor seeks publication of electoral rolls

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Shashi Tharoor writes to Madhusudan Mistry, seeks publication of electoral rolls for Congress president polls

NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has written to the party's central election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry seeking the publication of electoral rolls for the upcoming election to the post of AICC president, sources said on Friday.

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Congress president’s election mired in controversy as leaders question voters’ list

NEW DELHI: The election to the Congress president’s post is getting mired in one controversy or the other with each passing day. In the latest row, senior party leaders have questioned the constitutionality of the voters’ list.

The Hindu

Congress president election | Manish Tewari seeks transparency in process

Shashi Tharoor, Karti Chidambaram support Manish Tewari saying every election requires a well defined electoral college

The Hindu

Congress president to be elected via fair process, says party election authority chief Madhusudan Mistry

G-23 leaders Anand Sharma, Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Prithviraj Chavan discuss polls, call on Ghulam Nabi Azad

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Poll schedule to elect new Congress chief gets underway, party says it will stick to schedule

Rahul Gandhi still reluctant to contest

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