Rahul Gandhi only leader who can take over as Congress president: Ripun Bora

Rahul Gandhi is the only leader who can take on the mantle of Congress presidentship as he alone can struggle Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the get together’s Assam unit chief Ripun Bora has mentioned, amid a rising refrain inside the Congress in search of Gandhi’s return to the helm.

Mr. Bora mentioned that he has been interesting and demanding that Mr. Gandhi take up the get together presidency, and asserted he’ll proceed to take action until such time the Wayanad MP turns into the Congress chief once more.

“I am the first MP who from the very beginning has been raising his voice that Rahul Gandhi should take up the leadership of the Congress party,” the chief of the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee informed PTI in an interview.

“In several meetings and also during a Zoom conference of party chief Sonia Gandhi, I have raised this several times that only he can be Congress president,” Mr. Bora mentioned.

Rahul Gandhi is the only leader who can take on the mantle of presidentship, he asserted.

His remarks assume significance as they arrive amid an ongoing election course of to elect a brand new chief and a rising refrain inside the Congress in search of Mr. Gandhi’s return to the helm.

Three State items of the get together — Delhi, Chhattisgarh and Telangana — have handed resolutions in search of Mr. Gandhi’s return as Congress president.

Also, Mr. Gandhi has been aggressively campaigning for the get together in poll-bound States such as Assam, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

Asked if the Assam Congress may also cross an analogous decision as its counterparts from Delhi, Chhattisgarh and Telangana, Mr. Bora mentioned the State unit is true now busy getting ready for meeting elections however asserted that previously it has put it on document that it desires Mr. Gandhi again on the helm of affairs.

“He (Rahul Gandhi) is strongly against the BJP and only he can fight Modi, so only he can take up party presidency,” the Rajya Sabha MP mentioned.

Earlier this month, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel had additionally aired comparable views, saying Rahul Gandhi is the only leader who can take on the mantle of Congress presidentship as he’s the one who has been taking a powerful stand on essential points with out bowing to authorities’s stress.

The Congress final month introduced that the get together could have an elected president by June 2021 “at any cost”.

After a three-and-a-half-hour assembly, which was stormy at instances, the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the get together’s highest coverage making physique, had authorised incumbent chief Sonia Gandhi to schedule the inner elections after the conclusion of meeting polls in 5 States, together with Assam, attributable to be held within the subsequent few months.

Congress leaders K.C. Venugopal and Randeep Surjewala had mentioned that the CWC elections may also be held however it stays to be seen whether or not they can be scheduled earlier than or after the election to the put up of Congress president.

Sonia Gandhi took over as interim Congress president after Rahul Gandhi resigned within the wake of the get together’s Lok Sabha debacle in May 2019.