Congress MP Shashi Tharoor received the nomination forms for the party presidential election on Saturday as the week-long window for filing of the papers opened.
Tharoor confirmed that he is set to contest the poll after his aide Aalim Javeri collected the forms from Madhusudan Mistry, the chairperson of the Congress Central Election Authority, reported PTI.
On Friday, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot confirmed that he will contest the election while announcing that former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has made it clear that no one from the Gandhi family should become the next party chief.
The election to decide Congress president will take place on October 17 and the results will be announced two days later.
Sonia Gandhi has been at the helm since 1998, except the two years between 2017 and 2019 when Rahul Gandhi took over.
