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Senior Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge Congress leader Shashi Tharoor greets prior to addressing
accompanied by Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, Digvijay Singh, Bhupinder Singh the media after filing his nomination for the post of the party President, at his residence,
Hooda and others filing his nomination papers for the post of the party’s President (ANI) in New Delhi on Friday (ANI)

of party leaders is respected”. The goof-up by Tharoor, who is nected to the ideology of Congress ber 17. I am hopeful that I will win,”
Terming Kharge as the ‘Bhish- running for the president’s post of since my childhood, I used to cam- Kharge said addressing a press con-
ma Pita’ of the Congress, Tharoor the country’s oldest party does not paign for the same Gandhi - Nehru ference after filing nominations at
said that he will not withdraw his show good precedent. ideology when I was in class 8 and 9,” the All-India Congress Committee
nomination and that the contest will Party communications in-charge the 80-year-leader said adding that office in Delhi today.
be friendly and there is no rivalry Jairam Ramesh called the distorted the efforts to revive the party shall “I have been connected to the
between the candidates. Both Tew- map an “egregious error”, putting continue. ideology of Congress since my child-
ari and Tharoor belong to the G-23 the onus of explanation on Tharoor Earlier in the day, Kharge filed hood, I used to campaign for the same
grouping of senior leaders within the and his team. He was responding to his nomination for the president of Gandhi-Nehru ideology when I was
party. Reports had suggested Tewari a tweet by BJP IT Cell chief Amit Congress and said he was fighting for in class 8 and 9,” the 80-year-leader
was himself thinking of contesting. Malviya who took a dig at Rahul a big change in the party. said adding that the efforts to revive
Meanwhile, Shashi Tharoor on Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ and “I thank all the leaders, workers, the party shall continue.
Friday issued a clarification over the Tharoor. delegates and ministers who came in Earlier, in yet another twist in
map blunder in his manifesto stat- On Friday, Mallikarjun Kharge support of me today and encouraged the tale of the Congress president
ing that “no one does such things said that he was fighting for a big me. polls, Digvijaya Singh on Friday said
on purpose” and added that team of change in the party.”I have been con- We will see the results on Octo- he was dropping out of the race for
volunteers had committed a mistake. the top post and announced his sup-
“Re the troll storm on a mani- port for Mallikarjun Kharge.
festo map: No one does such things Speaking to reporters here,
on purpose. A small team of vol- Singh said he “cannot think of con-
unteers made a mistake. We recti- testing an election” against a senior
fied it immediately and I apologies leader like Kharge.
unconditionally for the error,” the He said he will not compromise
Congress MP said in a tweet. He on his “commitment to the Neh-
also shared the link of the rectified ru-Gandhi family”.
manifesto. “I have always worked for Con-
gress all my life and will continue to
Earlier, the election manifesto do so. I do not compromise on three
things. First, Dalit, tribal and poor.
shared by him showed a “dis- Second, I do not compromise with
torted map of India” in which those involved in disrupting commu-
nal peace. I will not compromise on
he omitted parts of Jammu my commitment to the Nehru-Gand-
and Kashmir and Ladakh. He hi family, neither have I ever done
it,” he said.
shared the distorted map of Singh is the second Congress
India, where he talked about leader to pull out of the race after
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Ge-
‘decentralization of the organi- Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot during the filing of nominations at the party office in hlot announced he would not contest
zation’. New Delhi on Friday (ANI Photo) the elections following the political
turmoil in his state.

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