Whereas a number of high leaders of Congress like Ashok Gehlot and Shashi Tharoor appear to be able to contest, refrain is rising louder within the occasion for Rahul Gandhi’s elevation to the highest submit with practically a dozen state items pushing for it amid uncertainty and suspense endured over whether or not he would tackle the mantle.
The Congress items in Goa, Odisha, Jharkhand and Haryana on Tuesday handed resolutions backing Rahul Gandhi for the submit of occasion president, becoming a member of a minimum of eight different Pradesh Congress Committees (PCCs) which have rooted for him.
Moreover these, occasion items in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Maharashtra, and Jammu Kashmir items of the occasion have handed related resolutions.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday gave clear alerts to Congress MLAs within the state that he has made up his thoughts to contest for the submit of occasion president if Rahul Gandhi doesn’t contest.
This got here 4 days after Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee unanimously handed a decision for making Rahul Gandhi the occasion’s nationwide president and on the day occasion management indicated that the members of the Gandhi household, together with interim occasion chief Sonia Gandhi, are unlikely to call any official candidate.
Sources on Tuesday stated the Gandhi household is unlikely to signal on the nomination papers of any candidate as proposers to indicate that they might stay impartial and that there isn’t any official candidate.
Common Secretary KC Venugopal on Tuesday that it’s as much as Rahul Gandhi to resolve whether or not he’ll contest the election for the occasion president submit, including that all the pieces shall be clear inside every week.
Venugopal, who met interim occasion chief Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday, stated, “I had some pending work of the occasion so I got here to satisfy her.” Venugopal additionally stated that each occasion employee desires Rahul Gandhi to be the subsequent Congress President.
Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra don’t commit sufficient time and significance to the Congress occasion and its leaders, president of the occasion’s Himachal Pradesh unit Pratibha Singh has stated, in line with a video posted on-line.
“I really feel there’s a little technology hole. What our seniors used to do, now the children don’t try this. What Sonia-ji, Indira-ji or Rajiv-ji used to do, immediately’s technology don’t try this,” Singh instructed ThePrint in an interview in Hindi and English.
Nonetheless, the Congress chief later claimed that she was misquoted and urged the web site to take down the interview. “An interview printed by @ThePrintIndia wrongly quotes my statements. I by no means made any assertion disparaging the Congress management and the Gandhi household. The interviewer has taken inventive liberties with my statements, misquoted all through the interview,” Singh stated in a tweet.
With inputs from News18
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