CONGRESS TO HOLD POLLS TO CHOOSE PRESIDENT IN SEPT 2022

Rahul Gandhi unlikely to be challenged, the likelihood of anyone else contesting for the president post is very unlikely.

- ABHINANDAN MISHRA

Interim Congress president Sonia Gandhi chose the path of maintaining the status quo for the time being as the members of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), who were expected to take a call on the new party president, unanimously” agreed to ask former party president Rahul Gandhi to take over the party reigns and to hold the internal elections to elect the party president in August-September 2022.

The announcement of the election schedule comes almost 26 months after 23 senior leaders (termed as G-23) wrote a letter to Sonia Gandhi asking for, among other things, a more democratic working style within the party. In her opening statement, Gandhi asked the CWC members to exercise self-control, discipline and to reach out to her directly rather than through the media.

According to two senior party leaders, who spoke to The Sunday Guardian on Saturday evening, this outcome of the meet was already decided before the CWC members met for the almost four-hour meet that began in Delhi on Friday at 11 am and ended at 3 pm. According to them, the noise that was generated by the letter sent by the G-23 leaders was now a page in the history books and many of the signatory to the letter had come out of the rebellious phase”.