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Mallikarjun Kharge elected as Congress' first non-Gandhi president in over two decades

Published: 19th October 2022 07:25 PM  |   Last Updated: 19th October 2022 07:27 PM  

The Congress party elected veteran leader #MallikarjunKharge as its first non-Gandhi president in 24 years on Wednesday. Out of the 9,385 votes polled in the Congress presidential polls, Mallikarjun Kharge got 7,897 votes, #ShashiTharoor secured 1,072 votes, and 416 votes were declared invalid, the party's Central Election Authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry said.

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