Some 9,500 Congress delegates voted in the Congress presidential polls and among them the first to cast his vote was Congress leader P Chidambaram. NDTV spoke to Mr Chidambaram about the contest between Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor. The election of a new Congress president will not diminish the voice of the Gandhis, Mr Chidambaram said today. But he dismissed what he called the "assumption" that the Gandhis would remote control after a new Congress chief took charge.