Cong to elect new president next week

The Congress is expected to kick off next week the process for election of its new president and members of the Congress working Committees (CWC).

Its CWC is to clear the poll programme drawn up by its central election authority (CEC), headed by former Gujarat MP Madhusudan Mistry (76) and decide whether to hold a virtual AICC session due to the pandemic or hold the session that will put its stamp on election of the new party president.

The CEC has drawn up a list of some 800 AICC members who will be issued the digital IDs to facilitate polls in the virtual mode. The party wanted to set into motion the poll process in Decemberend, but it was put off because of efforts for evolving a consensus on the name for the party president. Some had pressed for Rahul to take the responsibility at a meet with the rebels convened.