The Congress occasion, looking at an enormous setback following the exit of occasion veteran Ghulam Nabi Azad, held a key assembly yesterday and introduced that it might maintain the election for its president on October 17. The outcomes for the elections are to be introduced on October 19.

Whereas one seems to be on the listing of attainable contenders, one title seems to dominate the favorite listing, however the title is not any shock. ‘Rahul Gandhi stays No.1 alternative,’ Congress employees declared, whilst the previous president of the occasion stands agency that he doesn’t need the highest put up.

कांग्रेस कार्यसमिति की बैठक शुरू। बैठक में कांग्रेस अध्यक्ष श्रीमती सोनिया गांधी जी, @RahulGandhi जी सहित CWC के सदस्यगण शामिल हैं। pic.twitter.com/NG8BD8HKLt

— Congress (@INCIndia) August 28, 2022

Sources say there was no point out of Rahul Gandhi taking on because the Congress President within the 30-minute CWC assembly presided over by Sonia Gandhi who’s overseas for medical checkups, however the refrain for #RahulForPresident grows.

“Frankly from all people that I’ve spoken to or I’ve sensed their opinion, he stays the primary (alternative) and he stays the one one. Now we have no indications as as to if he’ll settle for our request,” Salman Khurshid, a everlasting invitee to the Congress Working Committee, advised PTI.

Not simply Khurshid, a number of senior members of the occasion have insisted on backing Rahul Gandhi to be the chief. Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, who occurs to be within the listing of contenders for the highest put up, sought to minimize stories about him being the frontrunner and mentioned efforts could be made until the final minute to steer Rahul Gandhi to take over the reins of the occasion as soon as once more.

The Chief of the opposition in Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge additionally echoed the sentiment and mentioned Rahul Gandhi could be persuaded to return as Congress president as there’s none within the occasion aside from him who has a pan-India attraction.

The management disaster is a protracted standing difficulty for the grand outdated occasion that final held polls for the highest put up in 2000 and has typically confronted criticism over dynastic politics because of the management of the Gandhi household over its affairs.

Sonia Gandhi stays the longest serving occasion president and has been on the helm since 1998 barring a two-year interval between 2017-19 when Rahul Gandhi took over. Rahul Gandhi resigned as Congress president after the occasion suffered its second consecutive defeat within the 2019 parliamentary elections.

Sonia Gandhi then took over the reins of the occasion as soon as once more as interim president and had provided to stop in 2020 after an open revolt by a bit of leaders – known as G-23, however the CWC had urged her to proceed. Sonia Gandhi who’s the present working president mentioned she wouldn’t keep on because the occasion chief citing well being causes.

With inputs from News18