NEW DELHI: The Congress Working Committee (CWC), the celebration’s highest decision-making physique, met on Sunday to approve the schedule for the election of the subsequent AICC president and sources stated the ballot is more likely to happen on October 17.

The assembly passed off amid a contemporary upheaval within the celebration as a result of shock resignation of celebration veteran Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday and his letter to celebration president Sonia Gandhi by which he lashed out at Rahul Gandhi for “demolishing the celebration’s total consultative mechanism”.

Sources stated the notification for the celebration president’s election can be issued on September 22, whereas the submitting of nomination would start on September 24 and proceed until September 30. The election, if required, will happen on October 17.

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

The net CWC assembly began at 3:30 PM with Sonia Gandhi, who’s overseas for medical test ups, presiding over it, flanked by former celebration 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, celebration’s central election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry, Ok C Venugopal, former union ministers Jairam Ramesh, Mukul Wasnik and P Chidambaram and Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot alongside along with his Chhattisgarh counterpart Bhupesh Baghel.

Get together sources had earlier stated the method of the election of the president can be delayed by a couple of weeks, no more than that, and the celebration ought to have a full-time president in October.

The Congress had introduced in October final yr that the election of the brand new celebration president can 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 models can be held from April 16 to Might 31, district committee chiefs can 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 stated the election of the Congress president is more likely to be delayed by a couple of weeks with the celebration targeted on the Kanyakumari to Kashmir ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ beginning September 7 and a few state models not finishing formalities.

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

A number of celebration insiders say Rahul Gandhi is persisting along with his stance that he won’t be the AICC president.

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

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

Rahul Gandhi had resigned as Congress president after the celebration suffered its second consecutive defeat in parliamentary elections in 2019. Sonia Gandhi who took over the reins of the celebration once more as interim president had additionally provided 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.

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