NEW DELHI: Current Congress president Sonia Gandhi confirmed on Friday that Rahul would soon take over the party chief position, making it clear that ongoing organizational polls would settle the much-awaited generational change.
"You have been asking this for so many years and it's now happening," Sonia Gandhi told a TV channel, pointing at Rahul Gandhi at a function here. Her remarks pointing toward that he is to be expected taking charge after Diwali.
All the states, and all party wings such as the Youth Congress, have already passed resolutions looking for Rahul Gandhi's rise as the party chief.
Sources said while the poll schedule would publicize the dates of nomination, scrutiny, withdrawal, and voting, the election was to be expected to be uncontested. The party is pushing to tie up the organizational polls by October 25.
The overwhelming demand in favor of Rahul indicates that there would be no challenger to the Gandhi scion unlike the past aberrations when Gandhi family members had the in-house nominee. The very last instance was when the late Jitendra Prasada contested against Sonia Gandhi in 2000.
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The Congress Working Committee (CWC) will congregate before Diwali to approve the election timetable for the post of Congress president as Rahul Gandhi.
