Congress to get elected party chief by June: General Secretary KC Venugopal

The Congress will have an elected party President by June its General Secretary Organisations KC Venugopal said here on Friday after a crucial Congress Working Committee CWC meetingParty sources said that several senior party leaders had raised the issue of CWC elections as well which led to heated arguments The party however denied any such happeningVenugopal said that no dispute whatsoever on organisational elections arose at the fruitful meetingAddressing a press conference after the meeting that went on for threeandahalf hours Venugopal said The CWC discussed the organisational elections slated to be held in May But CWC members unanimously requested interim chief Sonia Gandhi that the party elections should not interfere with Assembly polls in several states in the coming monthsHe said that the CWC members thereby requested for rescheduling of the organisational elections Finally the CWC decided that an elected party President will be on the post in June 2021 at any cost Venugopal saidAs for heated arguments between former Union Ministers Anand Sharma Ghulam Nabi Azad and others who differed on the organisational elections the Congress leader said There was no big debate in the CWC We will conduct party election as per its constitution And the schedule will be out very soonSome change in schedule was required due to coming Assembly elections in Kerala Tamil Nadu Assam West Bengal and Puducherry and that was taken into consideration the party will announce the election schedule accordingly he saidAsked if there was demand for elections to the CWC as well Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said Dont get misguided Dont fall for rumours The leaders whose names have been taken are not dissenters they are our respected leaders and they are our family members And we all were unanimous that the party election schedule be postponed for a monthEven as Surjewala said that there were not heated arguments in the meeting the party source present there said that Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot raised the issue of demand by a few leaders for organisational elections and questioned if they had no faith in Congress leadershipA fuming Anand Sharma one of the 23 signatories to a letter to Sonia Gandhi in August last year retorted by demanding CWC elections as wellWe will have to look into the party constitution once again to see if elections to the posts of Congress President and Working President can be held simultaneously or not Elections will definitely be held we are not saying that elections to the CWC will not be held Venugopal 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