Will have full-time president of Congress by September 2022: Sources
The Congress is expected to have a full-time president at the end of next year. Elections for this will be held in September 2022, sources close to the party said. In today’s meeting, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot proposed that Rahul Gandhi should become the president and it was supported by all the members of CWC including G-23 members. According to sources, the election process for the party president will be done by September 2022.
Recalling that the Congress had finalized a roadmap for the election of a regular Congress chief by June 30, but that deadline was extended indefinitely due to the second wave of Covid-19, the CWC meeting Sonia Gandhi said that today was an opportunity to bring clarity on this issue once and for all. organizational elections
He said that the schedule of full organizational elections was placed before the CWC members.
The senior leader made it clear without saying anything. He is a ‘full time and practical Congress President’.’ “If you allow me to say so, I am a full-time and practical Congress president, which many see as a response to Sibal’s comments last month,” Gandhi said.
Sonia Gandhi, former President Rahul Gandhi, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Congress Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot of Rajasthan, Bhupesh Baghel of Chhattisgarh and Charanjit Channi of Punjab attended the meeting.
Senior leaders and G23 leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma were present in the meeting held at the All India Congress Committee headquarters.
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