Tharoor vs Gehlot official: MP's team collects papers for Congress chief poll

Filing of nominations for the post of Congress president began on Saturday with a direct contest between Shashi Tharoor and Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot on the cards.
A representative of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor collected the nomination papers for the party's presidential election from the party's central election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry on Saturday.

In a request letter sent for his candidature, Tharoor has sought five sets of nomination papers for the election of Congress party president. Mistry is available at the Congress headquarters in the national capital to take the nomination papers as returning officer of the election.