Sonia-Rahul Gandhi (File Photo)
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The country’s oldest political party Congress is going to take big and historic steps to elect its new party president. In fact, the Indian National Congress Party will conduct online voting to elect its new president. For this, digital voter cards will be issued to Congress representatives soon. For this election, the Central Election Authority has started the process of preparing a list of about 1500 Congressmen. For this, it has asked all Congress units to send photographs of representatives.
Rahul Gandhi’s trouble will increase with online voting?
Significantly, the return of Rahul Gandhi as the new party president is seen in the Congress, but online voting can put a block on his path. If this happens, it will be seen as a big upset in the Congress. If Rahul Gandhi is re-elected Congress President, it would indicate that he is the undisputed leader in the party and also the most popular.
What will happen if another candidate comes in the election?
Online voting has also raised many big questions for the election of the new president of Congress. The first question is what will happen if someone enters the field in Rahul Gandhi’s confrontation? Actually, in such a situation the Central Election Authority has to prepare the entire setup like the general elections. It has to be decided from the polling process to the place and date of polling. A leader engaged in the digital election process said that we are fully prepared and ready for any situation. He said that except two states, we have got a list of representatives from other parts of the country. When the preparations for the electoral college are complete, the current president of the party will be informed.
Rahul Gandhi became president in 2017
According to sources, the list of Congress representatives includes the same names as Rahul Gandhi when he was appointed Congress President in 2017. However, the work of updating this list is going on continuously. According to the information, the ID card to be issued to the delegates will have a barcode, which will contain the complete information of the voter. This step has been taken to reduce the mistakes in the election.
Speaker’s term will be 2 years
Significantly, this election will be held to elect the regular president in place of the party’s working president Sonia Gandhi. The term of the new chairman has been fixed for two years. In such a situation, the next party president will go to polls in 2022. Let me tell you that after the bitter defeat in the Lok Sabha elections 2019, Rahul Gandhi resigned from his post, after which Sonia Gandhi was elected acting president.
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