Congress gears for elections to top party positions
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The Central Election Authority (CEA) of the Congress party met on Tuesday to full the formalities of holding organisational elections to the publish together with that of the party president and members of the Congress Working Committee (CWC).
While the election schedule is probably going to be prepared by the 12 months finish, the subsequent All India Congress Committee (AICC) session is unlikely to be held earlier than February.
The timing of the assembly is important because it comes simply two days after senior chief Ghulam Nabi Azad, a part of the group of 23 (G-23) who had sought a revamp by writing to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, renewed his assault on the management and demanded elections at each stage together with the president and the CWC.
A senior member of the CEA mentioned the voter record might be accomplished in one other 20-25 days and elections can be carried out by secret poll. Explaining the timeline, he mentioned, “The CEA will need another 25 days to initiate and complete the election process once mandated by the CWC. Once the voter list is ready, we will send a note to the Congress president who will then take a call on the road ahead.”
The CEA is headed by Madhusudan Mistry and contains Karnataka’s Krishna Byre Gowda, Lok Sabha MP from Tamil Nadu S. Jothimani, Delhi chief Arvinder Singh Lovely and Rajesh Kumar Mishra from Uttar Pradesh.
The CEA member mentioned their panel is making ready digital identification playing cards comparable to sensible playing cards for all of the AICC voters and has membership of 2017 as the bottom 12 months. He indicated that the method of compiling and updating the voter record of over 1,500 AICC delegates is occurring in a number of States whereas a number of others have accomplished it.
If the proposed elections witness a non-Gandhi contender to the publish of party president, it is going to be repeat of November 2000 when Sonia Gandhi had defeated her challenger, Jitendra Prasada.
Since then, the party had not seen any actual problem to the management of the Gandhi household till the G-23 referred to as for interior party reform and collective management in August. However, on August 24, the CWC had agreed to maintain organisational elections inside six months if the pandemic scenario permits.
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