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Head-on | Kharge vs Tharoor: Anatomy of a farcical election for Congress president
Minhaz Merchant •The Gandhis are pleased that the first contest for Congress president in decades has acquired quasi-legitimacy by Shashi Tharoor’s presence
Shashi Tharoor kicks up controversy with map blunder in Congress presidential polls manifesto
Fp Staff •The map on the manifesto of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor did not feature the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir and seemed to suggest that a major part of the region - now divided into the union territories of Ladakh and Jammu & Kashmir - has merged with Pakistan and China
'Priyanka Vadra no more a Gandhi, should be Congress president'
Fp Staff •'Priyanka Gandhi Vadra should be Congress chief. Rahul Gandhi says, nobody from Gandhi family should become one. Women become a part of that family where they go after marriage. Today, she's Vadra family's daughter-in-law, not a part of Gandhi family,' Congress MP Abdul Khaleque said
Shashi Tharoor gets nomination forms collected for Congress presidential poll
•Tharoor's close aide Aalim Javeri collected the forms from the office of the party's central election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry at the AICC headquarters in New Delhi on the first day of the start of the nomination process
Rahul Gandhi: If Ashok Gehlot becomes Congress president, he will have to step down from CM post
Fp Staff •After Rahul Gandhi's statement, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot took a U-turn and said it is good to adopt the ‘one man, one post' as the Congress President will have to take care of the entire country
Rahul Gandhi is an 'arrogant brat' with 'bloated sense of entitlement', says BJP
Fp Staff •For the first time in 22 years, Congress will elect its new party president on 17 October. Notably, in 2000, party veteran Jitendra Prasada contested against incumbent Congress president Sonia Gandhi but was defeated
‘Anyone can contest to be next Congress chief’: Madhusudan Mistry responds to Gehlot’s query on 2 posts
Fp Staff •Some of the frontrunners who are likely to throw their hat into the ring are former diplomat and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor and Rajasthan chief minister and veteran party leader Ashok Gehlot
'How can there be a fair and free election without...': Manish Tewari seeks transparency in Congress president polls
•He also asked why anyone seeking to contest the Congress president's election should go to the PCC office to get the electoral roll as this does not even happen in a club election
Ambiguity continues over Rahul Gandhi's contesting Congress' presidential poll
•Rahul Gandhi has so far not given any clear indication of contesting the elections.
Congress downplays strife, asserts Rahul Gandhi best suited to lead party ahead of Sonia's meet with rebels
•The assertion comes ahead of Saturday's meeting between Sonia Gandhi and many of the 23 leaders who wrote to her in August demanding an active leadership and maintained that Gandhis will always be a 'guiding force'