New Delhi, 17/10: Around 9,300 leaders and workers on Monday will choose between Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor as to who will be the new Congress president, as the party will witness the first contest in the last 22 years and sixth in its 137-year-old history.
The counting of votes will be held on Wednesday after ballot boxes are brought from states. The results will give Congress the first non-Gandhi president in 24 years, as Rahul Gandhi refused to return as party chief and insisted that a non-Gandhi should lead the party.
There had been elections to Congress president post five times earlier — 1939, 1950, 1977, 1997 and 2000.
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