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While Kharge garnered 7897 votes, his contender Shashi Tharoor got about 1000 votes and 416 votes got rejected.

As many of the regional representatives were busy with the Bharat Jodo Yatra, they voted in the yatra polling station organised there, while those appointed as election officers in other states cast their votes via postal ballots.

On many senior Congress leaders not attending Tharoor's campaign ahead of the party's presidential polls, he said: "I did not mind this... I have got amazing support from the younger leaders of the party."

Upon his arrival at the Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA), senior leaders of the Odisha Congress, MLAs and State In-Charge received him and took him to the party office.

As per sources, Sonia Gandhi might not be present in the country when Congress leader sit down to elect the next party President, as she will be visiting her ailing mother after her check-up.

A schedule for full-fledged organisational elections has been put before the CWC members, Sonia Gandhi said.

New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday took everyone in the Lok Sabha by surprise when he went and hugged Prime Minister Narendra Modi after tearing into the BJP-led government during the no confidence motion. “I have not an iota of hatred or hard feelings against you. You hate me, I maybe ‘Pappu’ for […]

New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi has been elected unopposed as Congress president thereby ending his mother Sonia Gandhi’s 19-year tenure as the party president. Party’s central election authority head Mullappally Ramachandran today announced that Rahul Gandhi will collect the certificate formally declaring his ascension to the post on December 16.  The 47-year-old scion of the Nehru-Gandhi […]

New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday mocked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for getting the Philip Kotler Presidential award, saying the award was so famous that it has no jury. “I want to congratulate our Prime Minister on winning the world famous ‘Kotler Presidential Award’,” tweeted Gandhi. “In fact it’s so famous it has […]

New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday charged Prime Minister Narendra Modi with destroying key institutions to cover up the “Rafale scam” following reports of Supreme Court judge A.K. Sikri, who sided with the government to remove CBI Director Alok Verma, being nominated to the Commonwealth Tribunal. According to sources, Justice Sikri was nominated […]

New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday launched a no-holds-barred attack on Congress President Rahul Gandhi and his family and said he understood only the arithmetic of money and not issues related to national security. Intervening in a debate on the controversial Rafale fighter jet deal in the Lok Sabha, he said it was […]

New Delhi: It was a year Congress President Rahul Gandhi came into his own as a campaigner and strategist, emerging as a powerful voice in the opposition against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He also earned his electoral spurs in tough Hindi heartland battles, helping his party win three states that will have ramifications in the […]

Panaji: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday slammed the BJP for what he described as an orchestrated attack on his party workers at a demonstration organised here by the state BJP to protest against his allegations of irregularities in the Rafale fighter jet deal. In his message shared on Facebook, Gandhi also said that he […]

New Delhi: After the BJP governments in Assam and Gujarat announced waiver of farm loans and rural electricity bills, respectively, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said it was now time for “sleeping” Prime Minister Narendra Modi to wake up. Gandhi claimed both states made the move under pressure from the Congress, which immediately after […]

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday carried out searches at the office of Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s brother-in-law Robert Vadra in an ongoing probe into the 2012 land deal in Kolayat in Rajasthan, official sources said. The searches at the Sukhdeo Vihar office began at 11 a.m. The action came after Vadra ignored fresh […]