Team News Riveting
New Delhi, November 20
The Indian National Congress, the grand old party, for the first time, is going to digitally conduct the voting process for the election of the party’s new president.
Political observers feel that the party is going ‘digital’ to ensure that the post of party President continues to remain firmly with the Gandhi family.
The INC intra-party elections has always been under the scanner following allegations that the process is designed so to ensure that the Gandhi family face no hiccups in ensuring an iron grip on the party. Now, for the first time, the party will digitally elect its new president thereby replacing the interim president Sonia Gandhi.
The party’s Central elections authority is in the process of formulating a voters list of around 1500 AICC delegates to vote for the next Congress president which is likely to fall in the lap of Rahul Gandhi.
In 2017, Rahul Gandhi was elected to the party’s helm for a five-year term but stepped down after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections thereby paving way for Sonia Gandhi to take over as the interim president. Now, it seems that Rahul is all set to return with the party leaders likely to spare no efforts to ensure a swift coronation for the forever party leader.
The party’s election authority is headed by Madhusudan Mistry – a staunch Rahul loyalist whose star has only grown ever since Rahul entered active politics.
The party has been facing multiple rebellions with even those leaders enjoying close proximity to the Gandhi family openly calling for effective leadership and intra-party democratic elections. The calls for a new leadership only grew after the drubbing received by the party in the Bihar elections and the by-polls which took place across the country.
