While Shashi Tharoor has lost the Congress Presidential election, it seems he has ‘won hearts’, but literally, according to reports.
While his rival Mallikarjun Kharge got 7,897 votes, Tharoor got 1,072 votes, ensuring a comfortable victory for Kharge. There are some interesting stories hidden among the 416 invalid votes.
Tharoor, who is often credited for his charm on social media, apparently got a ‘heart and an arrow’ next to his name on the Congress ballot. Sources in Tharoor camp told India Today when at least one of the invalid votes had a heart and an arrow on the column next to the leader’s name.
Another ballot paper had a swastika before Kharge’s name and a tick mark next to Tharoor’s name, indicating a conflict between the will of the voter and the will of God, the report said.
there were many invalid votes Rahul Gandhi was written on the ballots, indicating that they were both not the best choices for Congress’ top job.
Team Tharoor is apparently very happy with its 12% vote share of the total votes cast. An analysis by Tharoor’s camp showed that he got the most votes from Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh, as all the ballots were merged so that no one knows which candidate got how many votes from which state.
‘Professed himself as a candidate for change, not for dissent’
After Mallikarjun Kharge was elected Congress president, Tharoor on Wednesday said he has projected himself as a candidate for change and not dissent, while asserting that the party’s revival has indeed begun.
Addressing a press conference hours after his defeat, Tharoor also urged Kharge, the elected Congress president, to implement the provision of the Congress Constitution that calls for elections to the Congress Working Committee.
Tharoor said the Congress Presidential election has energized the party workers to face the challenge of the BJP in the upcoming elections. “It is not an issue about any one person. I only wish that the party is strong. For a strong India you need a strong Congress. Kharge’s victory is Congress’s victory,” he said. That the party’s presidential election is to strengthen the organization.
Asked whether he represents dissent, Tharoor said, “I didn’t project myself as a candidate of dissent, I saw myself as a candidate for change and change in the party’s ideology or the direction of the party.” Not the way we do our work.”
“I felt there was a need to open up access to workers, create more opportunities for discussion forums, implement not only the Udaipur Chintan Shivir announcements, but also additional ideas that I had propagated in the manifesto. For me, I will emphasize that it is not about disagreement but how can we make a good party better,” he said.
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