In a scathing rebuttal against Shashi Tharoor’s claim of “irregularities” in the conduct of Congress president election, AICC Central Election Authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry on Thursday hit out at the senior leader for being two-faced.
“We accepted your request and despite this, you went to the media accusing Central Election The authority was conspiring against you.
Taking a jibe at the Thiruvananthapuram MP, Mistry said Tharoor had told him that he was satisfied with the concerns of irregularities, making different allegations in front of the media. He said, “I am sorry to say that I had a face in front of you, who told that you are satisfied with all our answers and the different faces in the media which have made all these allegations against us.”
On Wednesday, Tharoor’s chief election agent Salman Soz, who had earlier made serious allegations about “disturbing facts” and the election process in Uttar Pradesh “devoid of credibility and integrity”, later said that the matter was a follow-up letter. was “standard practice”. entered the public domain.
“In light of complaints from our UP team yesterday, we immediately wrote a standard practice to the CEA of @INCIndia. Subsequent discussions with CEA have assured us of a fair investigation,” he said on Twitter.
Tagging Soz’s tweet, Tharoor had said that the matter was “leaked in the media”, called the line “unnecessary controversy”, and urged people to “move on” from the issue. “It was unfortunate that a stern internal letter to the CEA was leaked to the media. I hope this clarification by Salman Soz will end an unnecessary controversy. This election was to strengthen @INCIndia, not to divide. Let’s move on,” he had said.
However, later in the evening after the party conceded defeat to Mallikarjun Kharge in the presidential election, Tharoor told the media that such “mismatches had to happen”. “Our party did not conduct elections for 22 years. Mistakes were bound to happen in such elections. Overall leadership remained with Mr Kharge,” he said.
Reiterating his earlier statement on uneven grounds for the polls, he said, “I batted on an uneven pitch” and was “only cautious” about “ball tampering”, in reference to an earlier statement on irregularities.
In the 20th Congress Presidential election, Kharge got 7,897 votes and Tharoor got 1,072 votes, while 416 votes were declared invalid. By defeating Tharoor by a huge margin, Kharge became the first non-Gandhi chief of the Congress in two decades and the sixth in the party’s 137-year-old history.
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