New Delhi: After filing his nomination for the Congress Presidential elections on Friday, veteran party leader Mallikarjun Kharge said he was fighting for big change in the party and also appealed to all delegates to vote for him.
“All leaders, workers, delegates and ministers who came in support of me today, encouraged me, I thank them. We'll see what the results are, on 17th October; hopeful that I win. I have been connected to the ideology of Congress since my childhood, used to campaign for the same Gandhi, Nehru ideology when I was in classes 8th, 9th,” Kharge said.
Notably, Kharge’s candidature was proposed by Congress leaders Ashok Gehlot, Digvijaya Singh, Pramod Tiwari, PL Punia, AK Antony, Pawan Kumar Bansal and Mukul Wasnik, and backed by G23 leaders Anand Sharma and Manish Tewari.
Meanwhile, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor also filed his nomination for the post of Congress president at the AICC headquarters on Friday.
The Thiruvananthapuram MP submitted his papers to the party's central election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry.
The Congress leader issued his 'manifesto' and said that his nomination papers reflect the wide support as he got signatures of Congress workers from several states.
After filing nomination for AICC president elections, Tharoor said that the poll is about young people of India and future of the country.
Earlier, former Madhya Pradesh CM Digvijaya Singh and Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot were also a part of the race but eventually dropped out.
On Thursday, CM Ashok Gehlot announced that he is pulling out of the contest after he met party chief Sonia Gandhi and apologised to her for the crisis triggered by his loyalists in Rajasthan over a possible leadership change.