Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Oct 1: Party heavyweights Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor will now compete for the Congress party’s president post as former Jharkhand minister KN Tripathi’s nomination for the Congress was denied on Saturday.
On Friday, the final day of the process, the three had submitted their nominations.
Madhusudan Mistry, chairman of the AICC Central Election Authority, stated during a news conference at the Congress headquarters that a total of 20 nomination forms were received during the nomination process, and four of them were rejected.
Kharge filled out 14 forms, Tharoor five, and Tripathi one.
KN Tripathi’s form was rejected as the signature of one of his proposers did not match and another proposer’s signature was repeated.
