Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge won the party’s presidential election on Wednesday. He was up against party MP Shashi Tharoor. The party’s election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry announced that Kharge had received 7,897 of the 9,385 polled votes and Tharoor 1,072.
Notably, Kharge will be the first non-Gandhi president of the party in over two decades. While a lot remains to be seen about where this new leadership will take the Congress, here is a look at what some of the leading English dailies have to say on Kharge’s win.
