Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday filed his nomination for the post of Congress president at the party headquarters here. The Thiruvananthapuram MP submitted his documents to the party’s central election body chairman Madhusudan Mistry at his office at the AICC headquarters. He entered the AICC headquarters to the sound of drums and fanfare. Tharoor visited Rajghat in the morning and paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi before filing his nomination papers for the party’s presidential poll.
“Paying tribute to the man who built India’s bridge to the 21st century this morning,” Tharoor said in a tweet. He quoted former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi as saying, “India is an old country but a young nation… I dream of an India strong, independent, self-sufficient and in the forefront of the nations of the world in the service of humanity.” Voting will take place on October 17 and the result will be announced on October 19.
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