In
India, the ruckus has started regarding the election of the President of the
Congress Party. The contenders for the party president have started filing their nominations. Senior
Congress leaders and former Union ministers Shashi Tharoor and Pawan Bansal have filed their nominations as the nomination process began on Tuesday. However, no one is aware of
Rajasthan Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot, who has been in the headlines for the past several days, whether he has filed nomination for the post of president or not. However, meanwhile, news is also coming that senior party leader Ambika Soni has told herself to stay away from the presidential election.
Congress's Central Election Authority (CEA) President Madhusudan Mistry told news agency ANI that the nomination forms of Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor and All
India Congress Committee (AICC) treasurer Pawan Bansal for the party's presidential election on Tuesday. has been submitted to. However, he also said that
Rajasthan Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot is yet to file the nomination form.
Ashok Gehlot may fill the form on September 28
However, it is being mentioned in the media reports that
Rajasthan Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot can file his nomination on 28 September i.e. on Wednesday. On the other hand, Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor is expected to file his nomination on September 30. The election for the post of President in the
Congress will be held on October 17 and after that the results of the election will be declared on October 19.
Doubt remains on Pawan Bansal's form
Madhusudan Mistry, president of the
Congress's Central Election Authority, while talking to the media said that we have informed the interim president of the
Congress, Sonia Gandhi, about the work done so far in relation to the president's election. He said that the
elections will be held as per the schedule. Two people have now submitted the forms, including those of Shashi Tharoor and Pawan Bansal. However, Mistry said that it is not clear whether Pawan Bansal has filed his nomination papers for himself or for someone else.
two people submitted seven forms
When asked about the filing of nomination of
Rajasthan Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot, Madhusudan Mistry said that I do not have any information regarding this. No one has contacted me. He denied having any knowledge about the possibility of
Ashok Gehlot's nomination in the midst of the ongoing political crisis in
Rajasthan. He said that while Pawan Bansal himself had come to collect the form, Tharoor had sent his representative to collect the form. Mistry said that two people have submitted five to seven forms so far.
political crisis in Rajasthan
Let us tell you that the process of filing nomination papers for the election of
Congress President has been started after a political crisis erupted in
Rajasthan on Sunday over the successor of Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot.
Congress leaders Ajay Maken and Mallikarjun Kharge had visited
Rajasthan. He had said that he would submit his remarks to Sonia Gandhi on the rebellion by party MLAs in the state over the move to find a successor to Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot. On Monday, Ajay Maken and Mallikarjun Kharge briefed party chief Sonia Gandhi about the developments.