NEW DELHI: The Congress party on Wednesday finally elected its first non-Nehru-Gandhi president in 24 years when former leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge trounced Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor in the election which was held on October 17.
Before Kharge, the last non-Nehru-Gandhi to have become the Congress president was Sitaram Kesri, who was in the post from 1996 to 1998 before outgoing chief Sonia Gandhi replaced him in a “coup” sort of a situation.