9,500 delegates cast ballots to choose the new leader of the grand old party, according to Madhusudan Mistry, head of the Congress Central Election Authority. He added that this information is provisional and will be updated shortly.
“By and large, 96% of voting took place across states. There was no adverse incident during polling… three ballot boxes have been received so far,” Mistry said in a post-poll presser held at the AICC headquarters in Delhi.
Mistry added that other parties might draw lessons from the election’s openness and transparency.
He said Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, P Chidambaram, and Sonia Gandhi, the interim president of the Congress, were among the 87 people who he said cast ballots at the AICC headquarters.