New Delhi, August 28:
The Congress Working Committee (CWC), the party’s highest decision-making body, met on Sunday to fix the schedule for electing the next AICC chief. The election will be held on October 17 and the results will be declared after counting on October 19, the party said.
The meeting is taking place in the shadow of the resignation of senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, who, in his resignation letter, tore into Rahul Gandhi and his style of functioning.
The election will be notified on September 22 and the date for filing the nomination would be between September 24 and 30. The last date of withdrawal of a nomination would be October 8.
The CWC meeting was presided over by Sonia Gandhi virtually, as she is abroad for a medical checkup, accompanied by her children Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. The party was to elect a new president to replace Sonia Gandhi between August 21 and September 20.
While Azad has quit, G23 leaders Anand Sharma and Mukul Wasnik are members of the CWC. Sharma met Azad on Saturday and was closeted with him for nearly an hour.
