Congress President election is now Mallikarjun Kharge vs Shashi Tharoor.

Congress President election is now Mallikarjun Kharge vs Shashi Tharoor.

However, Tharoor said after filing his nomination that Kharge is his guardian and Bhishma Pitamah of the party.

He said that there is no difference between them.

Earlier, both the leaders reached the party office along with their respective proposers and filed their nominations in front of Congress Election Committee President Madhusudan Mistry. 

The 80-year-old Kharge is considered close and close to the Gandhi family.

He is currently the Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, Digvijay Singh, Pramod Tiwari, PL Punia, AK Antony, Pawan Kumar Bansal, Salman Khurshid, Avnish Pandey, Rajiv Shukla and Mukul Wasnik are among his proposers.

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Apart from these, G-23 leaders Anand Sharma and Manish Tewari are also proponents of Kharge's candidature.

Rajya Sabha member from Karnataka Nasir Hussain, former Puducherry CM V Narayanasamy and party general secretary Tariq Anwar were also among the proposers.

Many people including Ashok Gehlot, Digvijay Singh, G-23's Bhupendra Singh Hooda, Prithviraj Chavan, Anand Sharma, Deepender Hooda, Kumari Selja, Pawan Bansal and Delhi Pradesh Congress President Anil Chaudhary were present in Madhusudan Mistry's chamber at the time of Kharge's nomination. Were.  

On the other hand, among the proponents of Shashi Tharoor, Karti Chidambaram is a big name, who is an MP from Tamil Nadu, while Tharoor is an MP from Kerala.

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