Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Oct 19: In Wednesday’s vote-counting, soon after the votes started to be counted, Tharoor’s team urged that the votes cast in the state of Uttar Pradesh be thrown out because of claimed “disturbing facts” in the election process. Team Tharoor stated, “We did not enter this election to accept business as usual.”
“We’ve been in constant communication with Madhusudan Mistry’s office, informed them about many different issues, cannot get into its specifics right now,” said Salman Soz, the election agent of Tharoor.
“Our campaign wants to bring to your attention extremely serious irregularities in the conduct of the election in the state of Uttar Pradesh. As you will see, the facts are damning and the election process in UP is devoid of credibility and integrity,” in a letter to Mistry, team Tharoor said.
Election agent to Congress presidential candidate Shashi Tharoor writes letter to Congress Central Election Authority chairman Madhusudhan Mistry, alleging "extremely serious irregularities in conduct of election in UP" & demands "that all votes from UP be deemed invalid". pic.twitter.com/ZEAZVsJAVF
— ANI (@ANI) October 19, 2022
Two days after the Congress held a historic election the first in more than 20 years and one in which no Gandhi was running Shaki Tharoor today accused the electoral process of “very severe anomalies.”
Veteran politician Mallikarjun Kharge, who is regarded as “Gandhi-approved,” is Shashi Tharoor’s opponent in the race.
As soon as the votes started to be counted, Tharoor’s team claimed that there were “disturbing facts” regarding the election in Uttar Pradesh and urged that the results be thrown out. Team Tharoor declared, “We did not run for office to accept business as usual.