Over 9,000 state representatives will vote in the much-awaited election at 67 polling stations across the states and at the AICC headquarters. forty voters and Rahul Gandhi The Bharat Jodi will vote at the yatra camp in Bellary, Karnataka, while Sonia and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra are likely to vote at the AICC.
Congress Election Authority President Madhusudan Mistry has said that the voting will be through secret ballot and votes from all the booths will be mixed before the counting of votes at the party headquarters on October 19.
Although this is an internal election of the Congress, the campaign has been subject to controversies with Tharoor repeatedly alleging that the system was skewed in favor of Kharge, especially senior leaders, in favor of veterans and state managers. Appeals, which were turning him away during his campaign tour. , The Kerala MP accused “some leaders”, without naming them, of calling PCC representatives and claiming to be “involved in politicians”. Kharge Gandhi was the family’s choice, even though Sonia Gandhi has conveyed that the family was “neutral”.
Kharge filed his nomination after Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot withdrew from the race. Gehlot was the undeclared “official” candidate. Given that Kharge has replaced Gehlot, he is seen as the choice of the establishment. Tharoor has argued that the election was good for the party, and pointed to leadership struggles in the British Conservative Party to elect a prime minister to replace Boris Johnson.