Congress gears up to get new President today
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New Delhi: As the party prepares to see a non-Gandhi occupy the top position after more than two decades, the counting of ballots cast in the election for a new Congress President commenced in New Delhi on Wednesday.
To prevent knowing how many ballots each of the two candidates, Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor, obtained from a specific state, all the ballot papers were mixed before the counting process began at 10 a.m.
Results will be announced later in the day once the counting process is completed.
Since 1998, Sonia Gandhi has been the President, while Rahul Gandhi also occupied the post for a brief period and resigned following the 2019 Lok Sabha poll debacle.
The first challenge before the new President would be to resolve the ongoing political tussle in Rajasthan Congress.