The election for the post of Congress President ended in Maharashtra on Monday with 96 per cent of the delegates casting their votes in the state, an official said here.Of the total 561 eligible voters in Maharashtra, 542 cast their votes, .
New Delhi/Hyderabad, Oct. 3 (PTI): Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday asserted that a reimagined party is needed to take on the BJP, seeking support from party electors for his candidacy to the post of party chief. Tharoor, who represents Thiruvananthapuram in the Lok Sabha, ruled out ideological difference with party veteran Mallikarjun Kharge, who is also in the presidential race. “Let me make clear that I agree with @kharge ji that all of us in @incIndia wish to take on the BJP rather than each other. There is no ideological difference between us. The choice for our voting colleagues Oct 17 is only on how to do it most effectively,” Tharoor said in a tweet. His remarks comes a day after Kharge said he conveyed to Tharoor that a consensus candidate would be better, but the Lok Sabha MP insisted on a contest for the “sake of democracy”. Tharoor, who is in Hyderabad in connection with his campaign for Congress presidential poll, said he has “enormous
The Congress will on Saturday hold a series of press conferences in 22 cities across the country to "expose the links of terrorists with the BJP". Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said 22 senior leaders and spokespersons will address the media.
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor today said the discussions of the political committee, set up to deliberate key challenges facing the party and the country at the Chintan Shivir here, saw views "passionately debated" with "amicable solutions found".