The first non-Gandhi chief of the Indian National Congress in 24 years will be named today as the counting of votes for the party's internal election takes..
The Congress party will elect its first non-Gandhi president in 24 years today, with voting beginning at 10 a.m. at the AICC headquarters in Delhi. Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor, both senior party leaders, are running.
Former Union Ministers Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor are in the fray and it will be for the first time in 24 years that the party will get a party chief who does not belong to the Nehru-Gandhi family.