Congress releases guidelines for prez poll, party office-bearers cannot campaign

Ahead of its presidential poll the Congress on Monday issued a set of guidelines for the election debarring party officebearers from campaigning for candidatesThose who wish to support any candidate will have to first resign from their organisational post stated the guidelines issued by the Congress central election authorityMallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor are contesting the Congress president election in their personal capacity the party said noting that the delegates are free to elect any one of them as per their choice through ballot paperAICC general secretariesIncharges secretaries joint secretaries Pradesh Congress Committee PCC presidents Congress Legislature Party CLP leaders heads of frontal organisations chiefs of departments cells and all official spokespersons shall not campaign for or against contesting candidates it saidIf they wish to support any candidate they must first resign from their organisational post after that they participate in the campaign process it saidThe polling for the Congress presidential election will be held on October 17 The counting of votes will be taken up on October 19 and the results will be declared the same dayAlso Read Uddhav Thackerayled party is real Shiv Sena NCPMore than 9000 Pradesh Congress Committee PCC delegates will vote in the pollThe Congress asked all PCC presidents to extend courtesy to the candidates during their visits to the respective statesThe PCC presidents will provide and arrange a meeting hall chairs and other public announcement equipment for the candidate who wishes to hold the meeting of PCC delegates it saidHowever no such meeting can be called by the PCC president in their personal capacity it warnedOrganising the meeting is the task of the proposer or the supporters of the contesting candidates it pointed outDuring the election Congress said no candidate can use vehicles for bringing voters nor resort to any undesired pamphleteering or any other kind of publication propagandaControverters of these procedures shall render the candidatures election invalid and make them liable for disciplinary action the party warnedIt said utmost care must be taken to ensure that there is no malafide campaign against any candidateThe same would bring disgrace to the party The sensitivity of the election process must be upheld at any cost it cautionedIn a tweet Tharoor said he welcomes the announcement by the partys chief election authority on the organisations presidential electionIn another tweet he said he has resigned as the chief of Professionals CongressFor those asking I have already submitted my letter of resignation as head of ProfCong to the Congress President last month he saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever