The Congress Working Committee, currently underway at New Delhi's 10 Janpath has passed a resolution to elevate Vice-President Rahul Gandhi to party president.
According to ANI, the notification for Congress President poll is to be issued on 1st December, nomination 4th December, voting on 16th December and counting on 19th December.
On the last day of filing the nomination, if no other contestant files against Rahul Gandhi, then he will be declared President unopposed.
The CWC, the party's highest decision-making body, decides the dates for filing of nominations and the election.
The meeting was attended by Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh along with senior party leaders Mallikarjun Kharge, Ahmed Patel, P. Chidambaram, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Sushilkumar Shinde and Karan Singh.
The CWC meet comes a day after the party will celebrate the birth anniversary of icon and former prime minister Indira Gandhi on November 19.
The party has time till December 31 to complete the entire organisational election process and submit the report to the Election Commission.
The Congress had earlier set a deadline to complete the organisational elections by October-end.
Mullapally Ramachandran, chairman of the Central Election Authority, which is supervising the Congress internal elections had submitted a schedule last month for the post of party president to Sonia Gandhi but she could not convene a CWC meeting to approve the same due to her ill health.
As part of the internal polls, most state units have already passed resolutions urging Rahul to take over as the next party president. Last year, the CWC too had passed a unanimous resolution urging Rahul to take over as party president.
Rahul’s elevation was likely to have taken place by October end but got postponed as the party got busy with assembly polls in Himachal Pradesh on November 9 and the December 9 and 14 Gujarat elections.
Last week, there was buzz in the party circles that Rahul’s elevation had been deferred till the Gujarat poll result on December 18.
Sonia became Congress president in 1998 and was elected to the post in 2000, becoming the longest serving party chief. Her extension as party chief ends in December by when the Congress would have to intimate the Election Commission about the new party chief or whether Sonia would continue for another year.
Rahul became party vice president in 2013. After being promoted, he is expected to announce a new team of AICC office bearers to prepare the Congress for the 2019 national elections.
According to ANI, the notification for Congress President poll is to be issued on 1st December, nomination 4th December, voting on 16th December and counting on 19th December.
On the last day of filing the nomination, if no other contestant files against Rahul Gandhi, then he will be declared President unopposed.
The CWC, the party's highest decision-making body, decides the dates for filing of nominations and the election.
The meeting was attended by Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh along with senior party leaders Mallikarjun Kharge, Ahmed Patel, P. Chidambaram, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Sushilkumar Shinde and Karan Singh.
The CWC meet comes a day after the party will celebrate the birth anniversary of icon and former prime minister Indira Gandhi on November 19.
The party has time till December 31 to complete the entire organisational election process and submit the report to the Election Commission.
The Congress had earlier set a deadline to complete the organisational elections by October-end.
Mullapally Ramachandran, chairman of the Central Election Authority, which is supervising the Congress internal elections had submitted a schedule last month for the post of party president to Sonia Gandhi but she could not convene a CWC meeting to approve the same due to her ill health.
As part of the internal polls, most state units have already passed resolutions urging Rahul to take over as the next party president. Last year, the CWC too had passed a unanimous resolution urging Rahul to take over as party president.
Rahul’s elevation was likely to have taken place by October end but got postponed as the party got busy with assembly polls in Himachal Pradesh on November 9 and the December 9 and 14 Gujarat elections.
Last week, there was buzz in the party circles that Rahul’s elevation had been deferred till the Gujarat poll result on December 18.
Sonia became Congress president in 1998 and was elected to the post in 2000, becoming the longest serving party chief. Her extension as party chief ends in December by when the Congress would have to intimate the Election Commission about the new party chief or whether Sonia would continue for another year.
Rahul became party vice president in 2013. After being promoted, he is expected to announce a new team of AICC office bearers to prepare the Congress for the 2019 national elections.