Jairam Ramesh: “It is essential to reiterate that any member is welcome to contest for President”.

New Delhi:

Quickly after reviews of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor getting the inexperienced sign from Sonia Gandhi to run for social gathering President, the grand previous social gathering’s communications in-charge Jairam Ramesh in what’s being seen as a veiled swipe at Mr Tharoor, stated, “No person wants anyone’s nod to contest, particularly that of social gathering management”.

“Whole social gathering is immersed in making #BharatJodoYatra successful. Even so it is essential to reiterate that any member is welcome to contest for Congress President. It is a democratic & clear course of. No person wants anyone’s nod to contest, particularly that of social gathering management,” he tweeted.

Whole social gathering is immersed in making #BharatJodoYatra successful. Even so it is essential to reiterate that any member is welcome to contest for Congress President. It is a democratic & clear course of. No person wants anyone’s nod to contest, particularly that of social gathering management.

— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) September 20, 2022

Mr Tharoor met with Sonia Gandhi, who’s simply again from a visit overseas for a medical check-up, on Monday afternoon and received her go-ahead to contest the October 17 election.

The Congress might have a non-Gandhi president for the primary time in over 20 years. Ashok Gehlot, a Gandhi household loyalist, will doubtless run for social gathering president reverse Shashi Tharoor, who’s amongst these within the social gathering who need main inner reforms.

Shashi Tharoor, a former Union Minister, was the primary to declare his intention to run for a put up that has been with the Gandhis — both Sonia Gandhi or her son Rahul — for a lot of 25 years. He’s a distinguished member of the Congress’s G-23 or group of 23 leaders who had written to Sonia Gandhi in 2020 calling for an organisational overhaul and blaming the social gathering’s downward spiral on a management drift.

The final non-Gandhi Congress President was Sitaram Kesari, from whom Sonia Gandhi took over in March 1998 – round two years after the Narasimha Rao authorities was voted out.