Voting to elect new Congress President on 17 October, counting on 19 October

Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. PTI

New Delhi: The election for Congress President will likely be happening on 17 October, between 10 am to 4 pm, Congress Working Committee (CWC), the occasion’s highest decision-making physique, introduced the schedule on Sunday.

The CWC met right now beneath the chairmanship of Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi. The ultimate schedule of the dates was recommended by the Central Election Authority of the AICC for election to the submit of Congress President

Notification course of for election to the submit of Congress President will likely be from 24 September to 30 September. Date of scrutiny of nomination has been fastened as 1 October. The final date for withdrawal of nomination is 8 October.

Counting of votes and declaration of End result will likely be on 19 October.

“CWC met beneath Sonia Gandhi and accepted the ultimate schedule. Nomination course of for submit of Congress president will likely be from 24 to 30 September. Elections to be held on 17 October and counting of votes and declaration of outcomes will likely be on 19 October,” Congress MP KC Venugopal stated right now.

Former Congress President and occasion MP Rahul Gandhi attended right now’s CWC assembly just about alongside together with his mom Sonia Gandhi and sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

The assembly is happening within the shadow of the resignation of senior Congress chief Ghulam Nabi Azad, who, in his resignation letter, tore into Rahul Gandhi and his fashion of functioning.

Sonia Gandhi is overseas for a medical checkup and is accompanied by Rahul and Priyanka. Notably, Congress was to elect a brand new president to interchange her between 21 August and 20 September.

In the present day’s CWC assembly comes simply few days after veteran occasion chief Ghulam Nabi Azad stop blaming the ‘coterie’ round Rahul Gandhi for the occasion’s decline.

Who could be the subsequent Congress president?

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has emerged because the best choice for the Congress president’s submit. A report by Financial Occasions quoted sources saying that Sonia Gandhi had requested him to contest throughout a gathering which she held earlier than leaving for medical checkup and remedy overseas.

Additionally, Gehlot has publicly exhorted Rahul Gandhi to return because the occasion President. Nevertheless, uncertainty and suspense proceed on the difficulty. In the meantime, Rahul Gandhi is persisting together with his stance that he won’t be the AICC president.

With inputs from companies