771 of the 797 delegates from Maharashtra cast ballots in the Congress Presidential Election

On Monday, a total of 771 of 797 delegates from the Maharashtra and Mumbai Congress chapters cast their votes for Mallikarjun Kharge or Shashi Tharoor to become the next president of the All-India Congress Committee (AICC). According to Congress officials, 96% of voters turned out for the Maharashtra Congress unit and 97% for the Mumbai unit. There are 797 Congress delegates from Maharashtra that can vote in total. Of these, 236 are from the Mumbai unit of the party, while 561 are from the Maharashtra Pradesh unit.

 

The votes were cast by a total of 542 of the 561 delegates from the state Congress unit and 229 from the Mumbai unit. At 10 AM, voting commenced at the Tilak Bhavan, the state Congress's headquarters in Mumbai. Along with past Chief Ministers Ashok Chavan, Prithviraj Chavan, and Sushilkumar Shinde, significant leaders who voted at Tilak Bhavan included state Congress President Nana Patole and his predecessor Balasaheb Thorat. Due to local body elections, Nagpur-based Congress delegates cast postal ballots. According to a party official, some party members vote from the places to which they have been assigned while on the party's poll duty in various states.

 

Mumbai's branch of Congress is a distinct entity. 229 of the 237 delegates present at the Mumbai Congress cast ballots. According to a Mumbai Congress official, Sanjay Nirupam, the former head of the Mumbai Congress, voted in Punjab because he was in the state for party business whereas seven other people were unable to vote owing to personal obligations. The head of the Mumbai Congress, Bhai Jagtap, as well as former lawmakers Milind Deora, Naseem Khan, Varsha Gaikwad, and Charan Singh Sapra all cast ballots.

 

 

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