Team News Riveting
New Delhi, October 20
Amidst controversy surrounding the presidential polls outcome in the grand-old party, Congress Central Election Authority Chairman Madhusudan Mistry on Thursday accused Shashi Tharoor’s team of having two faces—one for the party’s poll body and another for the media.
Refuting allegations of irregularities during the just-concluded AICC presidential poll, Mistry said the poll body satisfied the candidate on every complaint but despite that he raised all those points in the media before bringing them to “our notice”. He was responding to Team Tharoor’s letter in which “extremely serious irregularities” were flagged in the conduct of the election in Uttar Pradesh.
“I am sorry to say that you had one face before me which communicated that you’re satisfied with all our answers and action and different face in the media which made all these allegations against us,” Mistry said in his letter to Tharoor’s chief election agent Salman Soz, sources in the party said.
Meanwhile, BJP jumped into the fray and charged that Congress party rigged its presidential elections to make Mallikarjun Kharge win so that he can be remote controlled by the Gandhi family once he is elected the party president.
BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya said in a tweet, “The Congress President election was rigged with such precision that Mallikarjun Kharge got 88 per cent of the votes, just short of the 90 per cent mark, which could have given Tharoor the option to trigger a formal complaint alleging malpractice. He was denied that manoeuvre too. What a farce!”
