CWC to fulfill Sunday to approve schedule for election of Congress president

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The Congress Working Committee (CWC) will meet on Sunday to approve the schedule of dates for the election of the following occasion president.

This comes within the backdrop of occasion veteran Ghulam Nabi Azad’s shock resignation Friday.

Sources mentioned apart from giving approval to the polls schedule, the members of the CWC, the occasion’s highest decision-making physique, might additionally specific confidence within the management offered by Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.

This could be important within the context of Azad’s resignation and criticism of the management.

Azad ended his five-decade affiliation with the occasion and lashed out at Rahul Gandhi for “demolishing its entire consultative mechanism”.

The Congress, coping with the fallout of a collection of high-profile exits, together with that of Kapil Sibal and Ashwani Kumar, 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.

Ahead of the CWC assembly, to be held just about at 3:30 PM with Sonia Gandhi presiding over it, occasion sources had mentioned the method of the election of the president will probably 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 12 months that the election of the brand new occasion president will probably be held between August 21 and September 20 this 12 months.

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The CWC had determined that elections for block committees and one member every of state Congress models will probably be held from April 16 to May 31, district committee chiefs will probably 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.

Sources had additionally mentioned the election of the Congress president is prone 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 models not finishing formalities.

With Sonia Gandhi overseas for medical checkups and Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra accompanying her, they’ll be a part of the CWC assembly just about.

The assembly comes amid a number of leaders, together with Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, having publicly exhorted Rahul Gandhi to return because the occasion chief.

However, uncertainty and suspense proceed on the difficulty.

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Several occasion insiders say Rahul Gandhi is persisting along with his stance that he is not going to be the AICC president.

Gehlot on Wednesday had sought to minimize studies about him being the frontrunner for the Congress president’s submit and mentioned efforts will probably be made until the final minute to steer 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 excitement that the 2 could 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 bit of leaders, known as G-23, however the CWC had urged her to proceed.