The Congress president's election: All you need to know about its history

As Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor battle it out, here is a concise history of the Congress party's presidency

The Indian National Congress (INC) will get a new president on October 19. The voting to elect the new president will take place on October 17. Mallikarjun Kharge or Dr Shashi Tharoor will be the next president of the INC. This will be the first time in over two decades that the party will have an elected president. In 2000, Sonia Gandhi defeated Jitendra Prasada to become the Congress president.

The Indian National Congress was founded by Allan Octavian Hume in 1885, a British administrator who had first-hand experience of the revolt in 1857 and wanted to prevent such occurrences