Ahead of the essential election for the subsequent Congress president, the occasion management has agreed to make a major change to the polling course of following a requirement by a piece of senior leaders.
Anyone who needs to file nomination for the put up of Congress president will be capable of see the listing of all 9,000 delegates who make up the electoral school. This listing will probably be out there on the workplace of the occasion’s central election authority from September 20, Congress chief Madhusudan Mistry has mentioned.
The transfer comes after 5 MPs, together with Shashi Tharoor, Karti Chidambaram and Manish Tewari, had written to Mr Mistry, demading “transparency, fairness” within the election course of.
The Congress President’s election will probably be held on October 17 and nominations might be filed from September 24 to 30.
Mr Mistry, who’s the chairman of the occasion’s Central Election Authority, has mentioned these in search of to contest the ballot can verify the names of 10 delegates from their state on the state Congress workplace.
Once the nomination is signed and handed over to the Chief Returning Officer, they’ll get the whole listing of the delegates, he mentioned in a letter to the MPs.
“If anyone desires to get nominations from ten supporters from different states, the list of all 9000+ delegates will be available in my office at AICC, Delhi from 20th September (11 AM to 6 PM), before they file their nomination on 24th September,” he added.
“They can come and choose their 10 supporters (delegates) from the list and obtain their (delegates) signature for nomination,” he mentioned.
“This should resolve the anxiety of anybody about the process of filing their nominations without knowing the names of the delegates. Once the nomination is signed and handed over to the Chief Returning Officer, they will get the entire list of the delegates.
“I hope this satisfies the wants of you and different colleagues who’ve signed the letter. I categorical my gratitude to Shashi ji for calling and having a dialog with me on the identical at the moment,” Mr Mistry also said in his letter.
Welcoming the move, Mr Tharoor tweeted, “I’m happy that this clarification has come within the type of his constructive reply to our letter (connected). In view of those assurances, I’m happy. Many will probably be glad to maneuver on with an election course of that for my part will solely strengthen the occasion.”
The Congress presidential polls will take place against the backdrop of several high-profile exits, the latest being veteran parliamentarian and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. The exits have made louder calls for reforms within the party before it takes on the BJP in the 2024 general election.
Party leader Rahul Gandhi is now leading a Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir to rally support in the run-up to the election. Mr Gandhi, who stepped down as party president in 2019 and has refused the post since, said during the yatra, “Whether I’ll develop into Congress president or not will probably be clearer when occasion elections occur.” Currently, Sonia Gandhi is at the helm of the party.
Earlier, in their letter to Mr Mistry, five Congress MPs had said the electoral rolls should be securely provided to electors and potential candidates.
“We usually are not suggesting that any inside doc of the occasion needs to be launched in a fashion which will give a chance to those that want us in poor health to misuse the data contained therein,” the MPs wrote.
“We are relatively of the agency opinion that earlier than the graduation of the nomination course of, the occasion’s Central Election Authority (CEA) should present a listing of Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) delegates that make up the electoral school,” their letter mentioned.
