Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and the party’s President Mallikarjun Kharge arrive to cast their votes during the election for the post of secretary of the Constitution Club of India, in New Delhi, on Tuesday
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The 77-year old Constitution Club of India (CCI) on Delhi’s Rafi Marg is the scene of an enthralling BJP vs BJP fight, as two candidates from the party are throwing all their might into the club’s elections to wrest the top post .
Flamboyant BJP MP from Bihar and commercial pilot Rajiv Pratap Rudy, who has been Secretary (Administration) of the CCI for over two decades now, is facing a tough contest from his BJP colleague Sanjeev Kumar Baliyan — a Jat leader of Western UP. Both have been Union Ministers in the Modi government.
Show of strength Heavy weights from the BJP and the Congress — Amit Shah and JP Nadda, and Sonia Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge — turned up on Tuesday at the stately club, meant for sitting and former MPs, to cast their votes. Normally, the CCI elections are a routine affair, but this time around it has become a show of strength after Baliyan, a one time friend of Rudy, entered the fray reportedly with the mandate to end “party-baazi” culture in the club at the behest of the Union Minister Amit Shah.
However, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju told reporters after casting his vote, “Constitution Club election is
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