Congress President’s election to be held in September 2022: Report

The CWC – the party’s highest decision-making body – met this morning to finalize the schedule for the membership drive and grassroots-level organizational elections, choosing a new party chief to replace Sonia Gandhi as interim president. shall include.

Sonia Gandhi, who has been the party’s interim president since Rahul Gandhi’s resignation in 2019, is likely to remain in that position till the end of the membership drive and internal elections.

‘I am full time, I am Congress chief’

In a candid message to G23 at the CWC’s first in-person meeting since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, Sonia Gandhi said she is a full-time, practical party president and there is no need for leaders to talk to her. Media.

His remarks came after Kapil Sibal, one of the leaders of the Group of 23, which had written to Sonia Gandhi for organizational change in 2020, demanded that an urgent meeting of the CWC be called and wondered who in the party. taking decision. Absence of full time Chairman.

In his inaugural address at the CWC meeting, Gandhi said that every member of the party wants the revival of the Congress, but for this unity and the party’s interests must be paramount.

“Above all, it requires self-control and discipline,” she said.

Recalling that the Congress had finalized a roadmap for the election of a regular Congress chief by June 30, but that deadline was extended indefinitely due to the second wave of Covid-19, Sonia Gandhi said That today was an opportunity to bring clarity to the organizational issue once and for all. Election

He said that the schedule of full organizational elections was placed before the CWC members.

“If you allow me to say so, I am a full-time and practical Congress president, which many see as a response to Sibal’s comments last month,” Gandhi said.

Sonia Gandhi also said that she has always appreciated candor and there is no need to speak to him through the media.

“So let us all have a free and honest discussion. But what should be communicated outside the four walls of this room is the collective decision of the CWC,” he said.

Sonia Gandhi, former President Rahul Gandhi, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Congress Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot of Rajasthan, Bhupesh Baghel of Chhattisgarh and Charanjit Channi of Punjab attended the meeting.

Senior leaders and G23 leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma were present in the meeting held at the All India Congress Committee headquarters.