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Tharoor's campaign team has also raised "serious issues" in the conduct of the election in Punjab and Telangana.
The impressive performance in the presidential poll has made Tharoor a natural choice to be nominated to the Congress Working Committee, the highest decision-making body.
While Kharge is considered the firm favourite with his perceived proximity to the Gandhis, Tharoor has pitched himself as the candidate of change.
As many as 287 voters in Kerala reached Indira Bhavan to cast their votes to elect the party’s national president on Monday.
Kharge is considered the favourite for his perceived proximity to the Gandhis and backing by senior leaders, even as Tharoor has pitched himself as the candidate of change.
Tharoor is contesting against party veteran Mallikarjun Kharge. Neither belongs to the Gandhi family. It is after 24 years that the Congress party is preparing to accept a president outside the Gandhi family.
MK Ragahavan, MP, asserted that Congress leaders from Kerala will definitely vote for Tharoor even if they may publicly take a stand against him.
Voting would take place at the AICC headquarters in New Delhi and at over 65 polling booths across the country in an electoral contest which is taking place for the sixth time in the party's 137-year history.
"I am a trainee with a work history of 46 years," Tharoor quipped while maintaining that Sudhakaran, who is the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president, "is still a friend".
The Kerala unit also called for the CPI's alliance with the Congress at the national level.
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