The election for the new party president will take place between August 21 and September 20 this year, the Congress said in October of last year.
Digital
Desk: The election for the Congress president post will be held on
October 17 and the counting will be conducted on October 19, if required. The
Congress Working Committee (CWC), the party's highest decision-making body, met
on Sunday to approve the schedule for the election of the next AICC president.
On September 22, the party president election
will be announced, and nominations can be submitted starting on September 24
and running through September 30. If necessary, the election will be held on
October 17.
Along with Sonia Gandhi, interim head of the
Congress, and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi virtually
attended the CWC meeting. At 3:30 pm, the online CWC meeting got underway.
On August 28th, the Congress Working Committee met, presided over by Congress President Smt. Sonia Gandhi.
Schedule of dates for
Congress president poll:
1. September 22nd was the notification date
2. When to submit a nomination: between 11
a.m. and 3 p.m. on September 24 through September 30.
3. Examination date: October 1.
4. October 8 was the final day to withdraw.
5. If necessary, the election will be held on
October 17 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
6. October 19 at 10 a.m. is the date for
counting and declaring the results, if necessary.
Days
have passed since the resignations of young leader Jaiveer Shergill and party
veteran Ghulam Nabi Azad. Rahul Gandhi was criticized by Azad in his
resignation letter to Sonia Gandhi for "demolishing the party's whole
consultation structure."
Anand Sharma, a member of the G-23 dissident
group, former prime minister Manmohan Singh, Madhusudan Mistry, K. C. Venugopal,
former union ministers Jairam Ramesh, Mukul Wasnik, and P. Chidambaram, and
chief ministers of Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot and Chhattisgarh Bhupesh Baghel were
also present.
Earlier, according to party sources, the
election process would be delayed by no more than a few weeks, and the party
would nominate a permanent leader by the end of October.
The
election for the new party president will take place between August 21 and
September 20 this year, the Congress said in October of last year.
District Committee Chiefs will be chosen
between June 1 and July 20, state chiefs and AICC members between July 21 and
August 20, and the AICC president between August 21 and September 20, according
to a decision made by the CWC last year. Elections for block committees and one
member of each state Congress unit will take place from April 16 to May 31.
Rahul Gandhi, according to several party
insiders, is continuing to stand by his decision to decline the position of
AICC president.
On
Wednesday, Gehlot attempted to downplay rumours that he was the front-runner
for the position of Congress president and stated that attempts will be made up
until the very end to urge Rahul Gandhi to assume control of the party once
more.
Gehlot's comments had been made a day after he had met
with Sonia Gandhi, the head of the Congress, which had sparked rumours that the
two had discussed Gehlot being the next party leader.
After the Congress suffered its second consecutive loss
in the 2019 parliamentary elections, Rahul Gandhi resigned as party leader.
After an open uprising by a group of leaders known as the G-23 in August 2020,
Sonia Gandhi, who took over the reins of the party once more as interim
president, also offered to resign. However, the CWC encouraged her to stay in
office.
