New Delhi: Shashi Tharoor’s loss in the Congress official surveys wasn’t a shock in that capacity — Mallikarjun Kharge was in any case the most loved attributable to the Gandhis’ supporting — however he has figured out how to be the best losing competitors in years. In outright numbers and rate, he got a bigger number of votes than any terrible competitor in the three chiefship challenges that the Congress has found over the most recent 25 years.
At 1,072 of the 8,969 substantial votes, Shashi Tharoor got almost 11.95 percent of the legitimate votes. Mr Kharge won with 7,897. On the whole, 9,385 votes were surveyed yet the party survey board proclaimed 416 invalid because of wrong stamping or other such reasons.
The last political decision happened quite a while back, when Sonia Gandhi was tested by UP’s Jitendra Prasad. She was two years into the gig, having been picked collectively.
Jitendra Prasada oversaw less than 100 votes — at a little more than 1% of the 7,542 legitimate votes. It was one-on-one with Sonia Gandhi, who got 7,448 votes.
There were 7,771 votes surveyed, however 229 votes were proclaimed invalid.
Jitendra Prasada’s child, Jitin Prasada, happened to turned into an association serve in the Congress-drove UPA government however as of late changed to the BJP.
Before Sonia Gandhi came in, Sitaram Kesari’s hang on the party was tested in 1997. The challengers were Maharashtra pioneer Sharad Pawar, who later split away to shape his own party, and Rajesh Pilot, the late pioneer from Rajasthan whose child, Sachin Pilot, was essential for a sideshow in the most recent challenge.
Of the 7,460 legitimate votes in that political decision, Rajesh Pilot was a far off third with 354 (under 1 percent), while Sharad Pawar got 888 (11.9 percent) — barely short of Shashi Tharoor’s score in the most recent political decision. Sitaram Kesri, a political dissident from Bihar, won the 1997 challenge with an incredible 6,224 votes.
Be that as it may, he needed to clear a path for Sonia Gandhi once she consented to a few chiefs’ solicitation to control the Congress and was picked as president by agreement in 1998. The party was battling against a rising BJP at that point.
Sonia Gandhi served a continuous 19 years until child Rahul Gandhi got the seat in 2017, just to stop after the 2019 Lok Sabha political race rout. He demanded that a non-Gandhi take up the gig, and wouldn’t challenge for the post by the same token. Sonia Gandhi accordingly turned into the break boss as the party prepared for the surveys that at last prompted Mallikarjun Kharge turning into the first non-Gandhi boss in quite a while.
Mr Kharge’s candidature came after a Rajasthan-driven sideshow — the Gandhis’ best option, Ashok Gehlot, was not exactly prepared to surrender the Rajasthan Boss Pastor’s seat to Sachin Pilot. Ever the follower, Mr Kharge stepped in as Ashok Gehlot adhered to his state.
Shashi Tharoor, who submitted a few questions about the survey interaction, has since said the challenge reinforced majority rule government. He was among the principal chiefs to approach Mr Kharge and posturing for photographs showing solidarity.
