Whereas a number of high leaders of Congress like Ashok Gehlot and Shashi Tharoor appear to be able to contest, refrain is rising louder within the get together for Rahul Gandhi’s elevation to the highest submit with almost a dozen state models pushing for it amid uncertainty and suspense continued over whether or not he would tackle the mantle.
The Congress models in Goa, Odisha, Jharkhand and Haryana on Tuesday handed resolutions backing Rahul Gandhi for the submit of get together president, becoming a member of not less than eight different Pradesh Congress Committees (PCCs) which have rooted for him.
Moreover these, get together models in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Maharashtra, and Jammu Kashmir models of the get together have handed comparable resolutions.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday gave clear alerts to Congress MLAs within the state that he has made up his thoughts to contest for the submit of get together president if Rahul Gandhi doesn’t contest.
This got here 4 days after Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee unanimously handed a decision for making Rahul Gandhi the get together’s nationwide president and on the day get together management indicated that the members of the Gandhi household, together with interim get together chief Sonia Gandhi, are unlikely to call any official candidate.
Sources on Tuesday mentioned the Gandhi household is unlikely to signal on the nomination papers of any candidate as proposers to indicate that they’d stay impartial and that there isn’t a official candidate.
Common Secretary KC Venugopal on Tuesday that it’s as much as Rahul Gandhi to determine whether or not he’ll contest the election for the get together president submit, including that the whole lot will probably be clear inside every week.
Venugopal, who met interim get together chief Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday, mentioned, “I had some pending work of the get together so I got here to fulfill her.” Venugopal additionally mentioned that each get together employee needs Rahul Gandhi to be the subsequent Congress President.
Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra don’t dedicate sufficient time and significance to the Congress get together and its leaders, president of the get together’s Himachal Pradesh unit Pratibha Singh has mentioned, in line with a video posted on-line.
“I really feel there’s a little technology hole. What our seniors used to do, now the children don’t try this. What Sonia-ji, Indira-ji or Rajiv-ji used to do, immediately’s technology don’t try this,” Singh instructed ThePrint in an interview in Hindi and English.
Nevertheless, the Congress chief later claimed that she was misquoted and urged the web site to take down the interview. “An interview revealed by @ThePrintIndia wrongly quotes my statements. I by no means made any assertion disparaging the Congress management and the Gandhi household. The interviewer has taken artistic liberties with my statements, misquoted all through the interview,” Singh mentioned in a tweet.
With inputs from News18
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