• Congress to elect its President on October 17. Ashok Gehlot vs Rahul Gandhi

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    Congress to elect its President on October 17. Ashok Gehlot vs Rahul Gandhi

    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.



    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">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.



    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">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:




    mso-themecolor:text1">1. September 22nd was the notification date



    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">2. When to submit a nomination: between 11
    a.m. and 3 p.m. on September 24 through September 30.



    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">3. Examination date: October 1.



    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">4. October 8 was the final day to withdraw.



    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">5. If necessary, the election will be held on
    October 17 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.



    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">6. October 19 at 10 a.m. is the date for
    counting and declaring the results, if necessary.



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    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."



    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">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.



    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">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.




    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">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.



    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">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.