Congress president election on Oct 17, Filing of nomination to begin Sept 24

The Congress Working Committee on Sunday determined to carry the election for the occasion’s full-time president on October 17.

The notification for the election shall be issued on September 22, whereas the submitting of nomination would start on September 24 and proceed until September 30, the occasion’s central election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry advised reporters after a virtually 30-minute assembly of the CWC.

The election, if there may be multiple candidate, will happen on October 17, whereas counting of votes, if needed, and the declaration of outcomes could be on October 19.

The election schedule was authorised unanimously, the occasion’s Basic Secretary (Organisation) Okay C Venugopal mentioned.

The assembly of CWC, the Congress’ highest decision-making physique, came about amid a recent upheaval within the occasion as a result of shock resignation of veteran letter Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday and his letter to occasion president Sonia Gandhi by which he lashed out at Rahul Gandhi for “demolishing the occasion’s complete consultative mechanism”.

The Congress, coping with the fallout of a sequence of high-profile exits, together with that of Kapil Sibal and Ashwani Kumar, has tried to deflect the most recent blow by alleging that Azad’s DNA had been “Modi-fied” and linking his resignation to the top of his Rajya Sabha tenure.

The web CWC assembly began at 3:30 PM with Sonia Gandhi, who’s overseas for medical checkups, presiding over it, flanked by former occasion chief Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

Amongst others current have been Anand Sharma, who was a part of the G-23 dissident group, former prime minister Manmohan Singh, occasion’s central election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry, Okay C Venugopal, former union ministers Jairam Ramesh, Mukul Wasnik and P Chidambaram and Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot alongside together with his Chhattisgarh counterpart Bhupesh Baghel.

Occasion sources had earlier mentioned the method of the election of the president shall be delayed by a number of weeks, no more than that, and the occasion ought to have a full-time president in October.

The Congress had introduced in October final yr that the election of the brand new occasion president shall be held between August 21 and September 20 this yr.

The CWC had final yr determined that elections for block committees and one member every of state Congress items shall be held from April 16 to Might 31, district committee chiefs shall be elected between June 1 and July 20, state chiefs and AICC members between July 21 and August 20, and AICC president between August 21 and September 20.

The sources had mentioned the election of the Congress president is more likely to be delayed by a number of weeks with the occasion targeted on the Kanyakumari to Kashmir ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ beginning September 7 and a few state items not finishing formalities.

The assembly comes amid a number of leaders, together with Gehlot, having publicly exhorted Rahul Gandhi to return because the occasion chief. Nonetheless, uncertainty and suspense proceed on the problem.

A number of occasion insiders say Rahul Gandhi is persisting together with his stance that he is not going to be the AICC president.

Gehlot on Wednesday had sought to minimize experiences about him being the frontrunner for the Congress president’s put up and mentioned efforts shall be made until the final minute to influence Rahul 
Gandhi to take over the reins of the occasion once more.

Gehlot’s remarks had come a day after he met Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, triggering the thrill that the 2 might have mentioned the potential of him being the following occasion president.

Rahul Gandhi had resigned as Congress president after the occasion suffered its second consecutive defeat in parliamentary elections in 2019.

Sonia Gandhi who took over the reins of the occasion once more as interim president had additionally supplied to give up in August 2020 after an open revolt by a piece of leaders, known as G-23, however the CWC had urged her to proceed.