New Delhi. Elections for the new Congress president are due in October. Voting for the post will be held on October 17. The results will be announced on October 19. All the Congress leaders are pressurizing Rahul Gandhi to make him the president again. Meanwhile, senior Congress leader and MP Manish Tewari has raised questions on the process of election for the post of party president. In a tweet, he has raised the demand to make the list of voting representatives public. Let us tell you that before this, another senior leader and former Union Minister Anand Sharma has also raised questions on the voter list in the CWC meeting.
1/1 With great respect @MD_Mistry ji How can there be a fair & free election without a publicly available electoral roll? Essence of a fair & free process is names & addresses of electors must be published on @INCIndia website in a transparent manner. https://t.co/7lRqSwqseV
— Manish Tewari (@ManishTewari) August 31, 2022
Manish Tewari was also in the group of 23 leaders who wanted change in the Congress. He has asked the organization’s election in-charge Madhusudan Mistry through a tweet that how will the election of the Congress President be held impartially without making the voter list public? Manish has said that this does not happen even in the election of any club. With this attitude of Manish, before the election of Congress President, there is a possibility of creating a new ruckus in the Congress. Actually, about 9000 delegates will vote for the post of Congress President. Election in-charge Madhusudan Mistry has told the media that the voter list is in the state Congress offices and they will be handed over the list of contesting candidates. Manish Tewari has raised the question on whether the candidates will have to wander in the states to contest the election of the President?
Tiwari has also expressed the apprehension that the nomination of any candidate for the post of President can be canceled on the ground that his proposer is not a voter. According to the Congress constitution, if someone wants to become a candidate for the post of president, he needs 10 proposers. Earlier, Shashi Tharoor had indicated yesterday that he may contest elections. At the same time, three G-23 leaders Prithviraj Chavan, Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Anand Sharma had a long conversation after meeting Ghulam Nabi Azad, who had recently said goodbye to the Congress.