The electionwill be notified on September 22 and candidates can withdraw their nominations by October 8.
New Delhi:
Congress’s highest decision-making physique the Congress Working Committee as we speak stated the much-awaited election of its new President shall be held on October 17 and counting votes shall be finished two days later, on October 19. The submitting of nominations will start on September 24, and the final date is September 30.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who has joined just about as she is travelling overseas for well being checkups, presided over the CWC assembly.
The assembly comes days after an explosive resignation letter by the celebration’s G-23 dissident and former veteran Ghulam Nabi Azad blasting Rahul Gandhi for “infantile behaviour”, “obtrusive immaturity” and for letting a “coterie of inexperienced sycophants” run the celebration. In his letter, addressed to celebration president Sonia Gandhi, he additionally lashed out at Rahul Gandhi for “demolishing the celebration’s total consultative mechanism”.
The election shall be notified on September 22 and candidates can withdraw their nominations by October 8.
The CWC additionally reiterated that it has resolved to make the “Mehangai Par Halla Bol” rally in Delhi on September 4 and the launch of the Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari on September 7 “a convincing success”.
The Congress, coping with the fallout of a collection of high-profile exits, together with that of Kapil Sibal and Ashwani Kumar, has tried to deflect the most recent blow by alleging that Azad’s DNA had been “Modi-fied” and linking his resignation to the tip of his Rajya Sabha tenure.
The Congress had introduced in October final 12 months that the election of the brand new celebration president shall be held between August 21 and September 20 this 12 months.
