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Gehlot vs Tharoor? Finally, Congress party

ready for a non-Gandhi as president

Describing the post of Congress president as an “ideological post”, Rahul Gandhi says the

position “represents a set of ideas and belief system and vision of India”

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ajasthan Chief Minister Ashok MUSLIM CLERIC;
Gehlot on Friday confirmed his
Rcandidature for the upcoming Congress calls it
Congress president election and said ‘impact of Bharat
that Rahul Gandhi has made it clear
that “no member of the Gandhi fami- Jodo Yatra’
ly” would become the next party chief.
Speaking to the media, Gehlot,
who is in Kerala to take part in the ongress leader Gourav Val-
labh on Thursday claimed
Bharat Jodo Yatra, said, “I said ear- Cthat the meeting of RSS
lier that I will request him (Rahul chief Mohan Bhagwat with the
Gandhi) to accept this post when all All-India Imam Organization
the Congress Committees are passing president is the impact of the par-
resolutions in this regard. He made ty’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, and asked
it clear that no one from the Gandhi Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot announced that he will file a nomination for the Con- the RSS chief to join Rahul Gand-
family will become the next chief. He gress presidential poll (ANI) hi in uniting the country.
said he has decided this due to some The RSS chief, who is en-
reasons; a non-Gandhi family mem- gaged in a campaign to increase
ber will become the party chief”. contact with Muslims, on Thurs-
When asked if it is because of the
BJP’s allegations of nepotism, he said, day visited Masjid and Madarsa
in Delhi and met Chief Imam of
“Rahul Gandhi said it in 2019 that he All India Imam Organization Dr
would work more without any post. He Umer Ahmed Ilyasi, who called
had said this in the working commit- the RSS chief “the Father of the
tee. He said that he still stands on his Nation”. His visit to the Masjid
statement that he would work for the earlier and to the Madarsa has
party without a post, as the party says.” grabbed eyeballs, as it is for the
Congress’ presidential post-elec-
tion will be held on October 17 and first time that he has been to a
Madarsa.
the election results would be declared Speaking to media per-
on October 19. “It’s decided that I’ll sons, Vallabh said that the re-
contest (for the post of Congress pres- sults of the party’s Bharat Jodo
ident). I’ll fix the date soon (to file his Yatra are evident from the fact
nomination). It’s a need for the Op- Congress leader Shashi Tharoor and Selja Kumari click photographs during that for the first time Bhag-
position to be strong, looking at the wat has visited a Madarsa.
current position of the country,” he the Bharat Jodo Yatra (ANI) “Only 15 days have passed
said while adding that Congress Gen- since the Bharat Jodo Yatra has
eral Secretary Ajay Maken and party The Congress had decided on a that has “captured the institutional begun and the results are out. A
interim President Sonia Gandhi will set of organizational reforms during framework” of the country. BJP spokesperson has said Godse
decide the further proceedings “if he the Udaipur Chintan Shivir held ear- “We are fighting a machine that Murdabad on television. Mohan
becomes the party president”. lier this year. The declaration said has captured the institutional frame- Bhagwat went to the house of a
Earlier on Thursday, Rahul that the principle of “one person, one work of this country and has unlimit-
Gandhi emphasized the “one person, post” should be followed. ed money, unlimited ability to pres- person of another religion. This is
the effect of Bharat Jodo Yatra,”
one post” norm and said he believes Party MP Shashi Tharoor has surize, buy and threaten people. The said Vallabh.
the commitment to the party’s Udaipur also given an indication of contesting yatra is designed to tell the people of He further said that by the
declaration would be maintained in the polls and had met Sonia Gandhi on India that they need to be united and time the Bharat Jodo Yatra is
election for the party’s topmost post. Monday. He met Congress Central need to go back to an India that was completed, the hate and the di-
Describing the post of Congress Election Authority chief Madhusu- loving and affectionate,” he said.
president as an “ideological post”, dan Mistry on Wednesday. The nomination process for the visions created by the ruling dis-
pensation will disappear from the
Rahul Gandhi said the position “rep- Taking a veiled jibe at the Bhara- post of Congress president will begin country.
resents a set of ideas and belief system tiya Janata Party, Gandhi today said on September 24 and conclude on
and vision of India”. that Congress is fighting a “machine” September 30.

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