: Congress chief poll: Ashok Gehlot backs Mallikarjun Kharge, says Tharoor belongs to ‘elite class’ #IndiaNEWS Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday offered his support to Congress leader

Congress chief poll: Ashok Gehlot backs Mallikarjun Kharge, says Tharoor belongs to ‘elite class’ #IndiaNEWS
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday offered his support to Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge in the party’s presidential poll, saying that his rival Shashi Tharoor belonged to an “elite class???, PTI reported.“Tharoor is a class apart,??? Gehlot told reporters. “He is from the elite class, but the kind of experience which is needed to strengthen the party at booth, block and district levels, that is with Kharge and cannot be compared to Tharoor.???Gehlot also said Kharge was a person with a clean heart, that he was from from the Dalit community and welcomed by everyone in the Congress.Tharoor and Kharge are contesting the election for the post of Congress president. The election to decide the successor to the longest-serving party president Sonia Gandhi will take place on October 17. The results will be announced two days later.Besides Tharoor and Kharge, Jharkhand Congress leader KN Tripathi had also filed his nomination to contest the poll. However, his nomination was rejected.Gehlot had also said that he will contest for the Congress president’s post last week. However, on Thursday, he said he was out of the race. Gehlot had made the announcement after meeting Sonia Gandhi in Delhi. He told reporters that he had apologised to her after Rajasthan Congress MLAs defied the central...Read more

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