(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
The congress Working Committee (CWC) will meet on Sunday to
finalise the schedule and the date for the election to the post of
full-time party president, Trend reports citing The Tribune India .
The meeting will be held in a virtual mode, with interim
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi currently abroad for her treatment
accompanied by her children Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra.
The date, and the plan for nomination, withdrawal and scrutiny
of forms for the key election will be finalised. The window for the
election as previously approved by the CWC is until September
20.
The CWC is also likely to take note of former Leader of
Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad's shock exit from the party yesterday
and his caustic letter to Sonia Gandhi, slamming the party's
working style and lamenting that she had been a mere figure head
since May 2019 after her son Rahul resigned as party chief while
he, worse still, his personal assistants and security guards, made
decisions.
Azad also accused Sonia of applying UPA's remote-control model
of working to the Congress and said discussions and outcomes of
past“chintan shivirs” were never implemented and were left to
gather dust in AICC offices for years.
Sources say the CWC could likely back Sonia and denounce
personal attacks on her by a leader“whom the party gave
everything, including five terms in the Rajya Sabha, chief
ministership in Jammu and Kashmir, general secretary role across
all states and finally the position of the Leader of Opposition in
the Rajya Sabha”.
The CWC could also make a last-ditch effort to urge Rahul to
take up the party mantle by entering the election fray although a
plan B, insiders say, is in the works. The Gandhis are keen on
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot entering the poll fray in
case Rahul refuses for good.
Gehlot has been saying he would keep urging Rahul“till the last
minute” to heed the voice of Congress workers and lead them.
It remains to be seen who finally emerges in the race for the
election.
Azad, meanwhile, declared in his letter that the ongoing
internal polls were a sham and pre-prepared list of voters were
signed by AICC leaders“handpicked by the coterie that runs the
party”.
A section of G23 sources maintain the electoral rolls for the
impending election are compromised and, therefore, the process is
questionable and non-transparent.
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