India desk: Voting for the Congress presidential elections is currently underway, news agency PTI reported. The polling process that began around 10 am will end at 4 pm.
The results are likely to be declared on October 19. The fate of the Congress party will be decided by over 9,000 Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) delegates who comprise the electoral college for electing the party chief.
Senior party leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor are the only two candidates in the fray.
While Kharge has been considered the Gandhi family’s ‘unofficial official candidate’ with a large number of senior leaders backing him, Tharoor pitched himself as the candidate of change. This will be the sixth time in its nearly 137-year-old history that an electoral contest would decide who would take up the mantle of the party’s president.
