A camp booth will be set up for Rahul Gandhi and others who are participating in the Bharat Jodo Yatra…reports Asian Lite News
After the date of withdrawal of nominations for the Congress presidential poll, the party now has two contestants — Shashi Tharoor and Mallikarjun Kharge — for the October 17 polls, in which 67 booths have been set up in all the states, the party’s central election authority (CEA) has said.
Madhusudan Mistry, Chairman of the CEA, said, “In AICC also there will be a booth, especially for all senior leaders, working committee members and all those whose identity card is from a different state but are staying in Delhi. If they write to us that they want to vote in Delhi then we will make arrangements here as well, they can also vote here in AICC.”
A camp booth will be set up for Rahul Gandhi and others who are participating in the Bharat Jodo Yatra.
“So the process of campaigning for these candidates starts from Saturday onwards, officially, although they have already started the campaign earlier, because, I mean, they seem to have decided not to withdraw from the contest. Technically, according to the constitution, we have to provide them with a seven day withdrawal period.”
The election will take place on October 17 in every state capital. Time is between 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.
The vote will be by the secret ballot. All the ballet boxes will be brought to the AICC headquarters and then, on October 19 the counting of votes will start and the result will be declared as soon as the counting gets over.
Rahul slams BJP’s comments
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has countered BJP on party presidential polls and said that both the contestants have statures of their own. For Congress presidential polls, Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor are the candidates.
“Both the nominees contesting for Congress Presidential elections have a position as well as their own perspectives. To call anyone a ‘remote control’ is insulting to both of them,” said Rahul.
Rahul attacked BJP and blamed it for spreading hatred and violence in the country, which he said is an anti-national act and he will fight anybody who spreads hatred and violence.
“We are not a fascist party. We are a party that believes in conversation and we welcome different viewpoints. We do know that in order to win elections we will have to work as a team.” he said.
Rahul said that the Constitution states that Bharat is a Union of States. “It means all our languages, states and traditions have an equally important space. That is the nature of our country.”
He claimed that the party will win Karnataka polls hands down and that the people are upset over unemployment and inflation.
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