Congress ballot paper amended for today’s polls
The New Indian Express|October 17, 2022
Delegates told to put tick mark, after Tharoor says writing ‘1’ may create needless confusion
CYNTHIA CHANDRAN
Congress ballot paper amended for today’s polls

A day before the much-awaited Congress presidential elections, Kerala MP Shashi Tharoor won a small battle by getting an important change made in the ballot paper.

Central election authority Madhusudan Mistry saw merit in Tharoor's point that the directive asking voters to write '1' against the name of their chosen candidate was flawed as it could be mistaken as 'candidate number 1' on the ballot paper, who is Mallikarjun Kharge.

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