New Delhi: The Congress will elect its president on Monday. Party MP from Wayanad in Kerala Rahul Gandhi, who is on the Bharat Jodo Yatra these days, is among 9,000 Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) delegates who will cast their votes to elect the party chief. The polling will begin at 10am and end at 4pm.
He will vote at a campsite in Karnataka’s Bellary, and his mother and party’s interim president Sonia Gandhi will do so at the party headquarters in New Delhi. In a tweet Congress’s general secretary Jairam Ramesh said, “There’ve been queries on where @RahulGandhi will cast his vote tomorrow for the Congress presidential election. There should be no speculation. He will be voting at #BharatJodo Yatra campsite in Sanganakallu, Billari along with 40 other Bharati Yatris who are PCC delegates.” Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will also cast his vote at the party headquarters.
The party has set up 67 booths in all states for the polls, said the party central election authority (CEA). Chairman of the CEA Madhusudan Mistry said, “There will also be a booth at the AICC for the senior leaders, working committee members and all whose identity card is from a different state but are staying in Delhi. If they write to us that they want to vote in Delhi then we will make arrangements here as well, they can also vote here in AICC.”
All ballot boxes will be brought to the AICC headquarters and counting will start on October 19.
