A total of 64 voters from Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) are eligible to cast their votes for the election to the post of All India Congress Committee (AICC) president scheduled to come off on October 17.

A total of 64 voters from Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) are eligible to cast their votes for the election to the post of All India Congress Committee (AICC) president scheduled to come off on October 17.

AICC set up 67 polling booths across the country 'Kharge vs Tharoor' fight on Oct 17, where the last electoral contest for the top post of the party took place in the year 2000 when Jitendra Prasada had suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of Sonia Gandhi.

For the Congress president election, Shashi Tharoor and Mallikarjun Kharge are the party's two contestants and the counting of ballots will be taken up on October 19 and results will be declared as to who between the two candidates, octogenarian Mallikarjun Kharge or shashi Tharoor, will win the election.

PCC president Birajit Sinha said that a ten member delegation of Tripura Congress led by PCC working president Sushanta Chakraborty, Niranjan Das and Abhijit Sarkar had gone to Guwahati and attended a meeting addressed by Kharge on Monday. He said that the PCC does not receive any communication from AICC, whether candidates Mallikarjun Kharge or shashi Tharoor will come into Tripura for the poll campaign.

Sinha said that senior Congress leader Abdul Hannan has been appointed as presiding officer for elections in Tripura which will come off at the Congress Bhavan on October 17 next and the Tripura Pradesh Congress’s working president Sushanta Chakraborty and Pancham Misra have been appointed as election agents.

He added that said that all the voters of TPCC have been informed of the election schedule and they will duly turn up on the scheduled day for casting their ballots in favour of their candidate 7. Elections will take place on October 17 in every state capital from 10 AM to 4 PM, Sinha said, adding that the vote will be by secret ballot. All the state’s ballot boxes will be brought to Delhi and counting will take place on October 19 and results will be declared the same day, he said.

Ballot papers will also be sent to the Bharat Jodo Yatra campsite in Karnataka and a booth will be set up there for the yatris, he said. More than 9,000 Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) delegates will vote in the poll