Sources say the choice to hunt a delay was unanimous.
New Delhi:
The Congress at the moment determined to place off the election of a brand new social gathering president citing Covid.
The Congress’s election physique had advisable that voting for a brand new social gathering chief can happen on June 23.
Sources say the Congress’s central election committee has instructed June 7 because the deadline for nominations for the social gathering high submit.
However the Congress Working Committee, the social gathering’s high decision-making physique, mentioned the elections needs to be delay given the COVID-19 disaster.
Sources say the choice to hunt a delay was unanimous.
The social gathering chief’s submit has been on the centre of turmoil because the social gathering’s 2019 normal election debacle.
This election is supposed to mark the Gandhis’ break from Congress’s management amid rumblings within the ranks alongside a sequence of defeats.
Rahul Gandhi, who took over the submit from mom Sonia Gandhi in 2017, stepped down after the Lok Sabha polls proudly owning accountability for the Congress defeat. He additionally instructed in a protracted resignation notice {that a} non-Gandhi ought to take cost.
However the Congress did not zero in on a alternative and urged Sonia Gandhi to return as interim chief.
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