Congress pushes its presidential polls by a month to Oct 17
4 min readBy Express News Service
NEW DELHI: While the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the celebration’s apex decision-making physique, on Sunday determined to push the celebration’s presidential election to mid-October, a senior functionary questioned whether or not due course of was adopted to arrange the electoral rolls for the much-delayed train.
The CWC was assembly within the backdrop of the gorgeous resignation of veteran celebration chief Ghulam Nabi Azad, who singled out Rahul Gandhi for damaging the celebration’s functioning and its political prospects.
Speaking on the assembly convened nearly by Congress president Sonia Gandhi, senior celebration functionary and G-23 member Anand Sharma identified that not solely had the celebration’s state models not acquired the electoral rolls, there have been complaints that no assembly was held earlier than finalising the checklist of voters.
About 9,000 All India Congress Committee (AICC) delegates make up the electoral school for the celebration’s presidential polls. Filing of nomination papers will start on September 24. Election shall be held on October 17 and the counting of votes will happen two days later. But if just one candidate is left within the fray after October 8, the deadline for withdrawal of nomination papers, the winner shall be declared the identical day. The election needed to be postpone by a month because it was clashing with the celebration’s nationwide Bharat Jodo Yatra beginning September 7.
During at present’s CWC assembly, Sharma, who earlier stop as a member of the steering committee that can oversee election-bound Himachal Pradesh, demanded that the electoral rolls be made public. However, the Congress’ Central Election Authority Chairman Madhusudan Mistry stated the voters’ checklist could be made accessible to contesting candidates on demand after the delegates are verified.
Party basic secretary Jairam Ramesh, nevertheless, tried to airbrush Sharma’s intervention. “’The election schedule that was put forward by Mistry, all CWC members unanimously approved it without raising any questions or demanding an extension of dates,” he later advised the media. Sonia, who’s overseas for her well being checkup, was flanked by Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on the assembly, which lasted about half-hour.
Chavan on puppet prez
Amid buzz that Sonia has sounded out Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot as her successor, former CM Prithviraj Chavan stated the celebration wouldn’t survive if somebody is made a puppet president
NEW DELHI: While the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the celebration’s apex decision-making physique, on Sunday determined to push the celebration’s presidential election to mid-October, a senior functionary questioned whether or not due course of was adopted to arrange the electoral rolls for the much-delayed train.
The CWC was assembly within the backdrop of the gorgeous resignation of veteran celebration chief Ghulam Nabi Azad, who singled out Rahul Gandhi for damaging the celebration’s functioning and its political prospects.
Speaking on the assembly convened nearly by Congress president Sonia Gandhi, senior celebration functionary and G-23 member Anand Sharma identified that not solely had the celebration’s state models not acquired the electoral rolls, there have been complaints that no assembly was held earlier than finalising the checklist of voters.
About 9,000 All India Congress Committee (AICC) delegates make up the electoral school for the celebration’s presidential polls. Filing of nomination papers will start on September 24. Election shall be held on October 17 and the counting of votes will happen two days later. But if just one candidate is left within the fray after October 8, the deadline for withdrawal of nomination papers, the winner shall be declared the identical day. The election needed to be postpone by a month because it was clashing with the celebration’s nationwide Bharat Jodo Yatra beginning September 7.
During at present’s CWC assembly, Sharma, who earlier stop as a member of the steering committee that can oversee election-bound Himachal Pradesh, demanded that the electoral rolls be made public. However, the Congress’ Central Election Authority Chairman Madhusudan Mistry stated the voters’ checklist could be made accessible to contesting candidates on demand after the delegates are verified.
Party basic secretary Jairam Ramesh, nevertheless, tried to airbrush Sharma’s intervention. “’The election schedule that was put forward by Mistry, all CWC members unanimously approved it without raising any questions or demanding an extension of dates,” he later advised the media. Sonia, who’s overseas for her well being checkup, was flanked by Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on the assembly, which lasted about half-hour.
Chavan on puppet prez
Amid buzz that Sonia has sounded out Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot as her successor, former CM Prithviraj Chavan stated the celebration wouldn’t survive if somebody is made a puppet president
