{"id":20804,"date":"2022-10-17T17:28:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T11:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper?p=20804"},"modified":"2022-10-17T17:28:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T11:58:28","slug":"sonia-gandhi-eagerly-awaited-voting-for-congress-presidential-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/2022\/10\/17\/sonia-gandhi-eagerly-awaited-voting-for-congress-presidential-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonia Gandhi Eagerly Awaited Voting for Congress Presidential Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi on Monday said that she had been waiting for a long time to cast her vote for the presidential poll.<\/p>\n

“I have been waiting for long time for this day,” she said to waiting reporters after casting her vote in a booth at party headquarters here. She was accompanied by her daughter and Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. who also cast her vote here.<\/p>\n

The Congress delegates were voting to elect the new president of the party and in the fray are Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor.<\/p>\n

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  1. Chidambaram was the first voter at the AICC headquarters and Jairam Ramesh followed him in early voting.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Tharoor has pitched for a change and appealed to the delegates to vote for him.<\/p>\n

    About 9,300 Congress delegates are scheduled to vote to elect a new party President between the two contenders in the fray.<\/p>\n

    Voting is underway across all states and union territories till 4.00 p.m. About 67 booths have been set up, according to the party’s Central Election Authority (CEA).<\/p>\n

    Once the voting process ends, all the ballet boxes will be brought to the AICC headquarters in New Delhi.<\/p>\n

    The results will be declared as soon as counting of the votes ends on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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