Congress presidential election: Voting begins for non-Gandhi leader| Pics

Polling to elect the Congress’s 37th president since Independence is being held at the party’s state offices and its headquarters in New Delhi. At least 9,200 delegates are eligible to vote for one of the two candidates - Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor.

Published on: Oct 17, 2022 12:52 PM IST

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Congress MP Rahul Gandhi - who stepped down as party chief after the disastrous 2019 election result - casts his vote at a Bharat Jodo Yatra campsite in Ballari, Karnataka. (Congress/ Twitter)

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Rahul Gandhi waits in queue to cast his vote for the next party chief. (Congress/ Twitter)

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Interim president Sonia Gandhi - who returned to lead the party after son Rahul Gandhi stepped down in 2019 - casts her vote. (Congress/ Twitter)

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Sonia Gandhi and her daughter, party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, cast their vote at the Congress' HQ in Delhi. (Congress/ Twitter)

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Congress MP Jairam Ramesh votes in Delhi. (ANI)

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Congress MP P Chidambaram votes in Delhi. (ANI)

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Voting begins at the Congress' headquarters in Delhi. (PTI)

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A party leader votes in Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir. (AFP)

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 Congress delegates wait to cast their votes in Ranchi in Jharkhand. (PTI)

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Pawan Kumar Bansal votes in Chandigarh. (PTI)

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Ajay Maken shortly before he voted in Delhi. (PTI)

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Congress leaders queue outside Sadaqat Ashram in Patna in Bihar to cast their votes. (PTI)

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Mallikarjun Kharge, a Rajya Sabha MP, after casting his vote. Kharge is one of the two candidates in the election; the other is Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor. (ANI)

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Priyanka Gandhi casts her vote in Delhi. (ANI)