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Up to date: September 1, 2022 00:10 IS
New Delhi [India]September 1 (ANI): Unease continues within the Congress as one other senior chief and celebration member Manish Tewari on Wednesday expressed issues over the election course of within the celebration.
In a sequence of tweets, Tewari raised points associated to the Congress election course of, days after the celebration introduced the schedule for celebration president election.
Taking to Twitter, the Congress chief stated: “My colleague in Parliament, Karti P. Chidambaram, is precisely proper. For each election to be kosher, the electoral school should be constitutionally constituted. I learn within the newspapers that Anand Sharma had expressed this broadly shared concern in Parliament. CWC and he have even publicly confirmed that he introduced it up.”
Tewari’s feedback got here after Karti Chidambaram’s tweet which stated: “Each election wants a well-defined and clear electoral school. The method of forming the electoral school should even be clear, well-defined and clear. An advert hoc electoral school isn’t an electoral school. .”
In a sequence of tweets, the congressman requested: How can there be honest and free elections and not using a publicly accessible voter record? “The essence of a good and free course of is that names and addresses of voters ought to be printed on the Congress web site in a clear method,” he stated.
“Why ought to anybody should go to each PCC workplace within the nation to search out out who the voters are? This isn’t finished with nice respect at membership elections. Within the curiosity of equity and transparency, I urge your good self to view the Full Record of Electors on the Congress web site. How can anybody contemplate operating for workplace if he/she does not know who the voters are. “If somebody has to file his/her nomination and it’s offered by ten members of Congress as required, the CEA can reject it saying they don’t seem to be legitimate voters,” he added.
Ghulam Nabi Azad, who resigned from Congress final week, has additionally expressed concern over the election course of within the celebration.
In a hard-hitting five-page observe to the Congress, interim president Sonia Gandhi Azad wrote: “Your complete electoral course of within the group is a farce and a sham. No elections have been held at any stage anyplace within the nation.” Handpicked lieutenants of the AICC have been compelled to signal lists ready by the coterie operating the AICC, positioned at 24, Akbar Highway.”
Azad, in his assault on Rahul Gandhi, wrote, “For the reason that 2019 elections, the state of affairs within the celebration has solely deteriorated. After Rahul Gandhi resigned in a ‘sniff’ and never earlier than insulting all senior celebration functionaries who had given their lives to the celebration. you took over as interim president throughout a gathering of the expanded working committee. A place you proceed to carry for the previous three years even as we speak.”
The Congress Working Committee (CWC) on Sunday determined that elections for the put up of Congress president will happen on October 17, sources stated. The counting of votes will happen on October 19.
This comes in opposition to the backdrop of the resignation of the celebration’s senior chief Gulam Nabi Azad on Friday. In line with sources, the election for the put up of President has now change into a problem for the Congress given Rahul Gandhi’s reluctance to contest the elections.
The Central Electoral Authority has made preparations to finish the election course of on time.
The method appears to be caught as Rahul Gandhi isn’t prepared to contest the election for the put up of Congress president, although all efforts to persuade him are nonetheless on, sources added. (ANI)
