NEW DELHI: The Congress Working Committee (CWC) has unanimously decided to postpone election to the post of Congress president till Covid-19 situation improves in the country, the party said on Monday.
After ‘G-23’- the informal grouping of Congress leaders, including Ghulam Nabi Azad, Kapil Sibal and Anand Sharma among others- had written a letter last year for the change in party leadership, the party decided to appoint a full-time president by June this year.
The party’s central election authority chaired by Madhusudan Mistry had proposed holding the election on June 23.
The CWC passed a unanimous resolution for postponing the internal elections for the post of Congress and focusing all its energy on the Covid-19 relief and rehabilitation efforts, KC Venugopal said in a press briefing.
Ever since Rahul Gandhi resigned as party president after the loss in 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Sonia Gandhi has been the interim president of the Congress.
There have been calls from both within and outside Congress for the party to set its house in order, appoint a full-time president in a bid to stop the rudderless fall in the fortunes of the Grand Old Party.
Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot proposed that there should be no election to the post of Congress president currently in view of the Covid-19 situation and senior party leader Ghulam Nabi Azad seconded him.
Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad is understood to have told the Congress Working Committee that this is a time for the party to put up a united front in order to emerge stronger in the wake of successive election defeats.
A fact-finding committee would also be set up examine the party’s loss in the recently-held assembly elections.
(With inputs from PTI)
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