New Delhi: While ending speculation on his promotion as party chief, Rahul Gandhi filed nomination for the post of President of Indian National Congress on Monday, in which under the leadership of his mother, Sonia Gandhi, the party to lead generation change.
The Rahul Gandhi 47-year-old are likely to emerge as the sole candidate in the field, clearing the deck for his promotion to the top post of the party, who has been successful with his mother, who for 19 years Has organized a line on the post.
The members of the CWC, the party’s general secretary, the chairmen of different states and chief ministers of the party ruled states, including the top Congress leaders, have five sets of nominations on his behalf.
As the promoters for Rahul in the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters in Delhi, the first nomination of senior party leaders including Kamal Nath, Sheila Dikshit, Motilal Vora and Tarun Gogoi were nominated. The Other people who had proposed Rahul’s name in the first set of nomination papers included Sonia Gandhi, Ahmed Patel, Mohsina Kidwai, Ashok Gehlot, Mukul Wasnik and Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanaswamy.
That the Congress Party leaders Manmohan Singh, Oscar Fernandes, P. Chidambaram, Sushil Kumar Shinde, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Anand Sharma, the Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah and his Meghalaya counterpart Mukul Sangma proposed his name in the second set of the nomination papers.
The Rahul Gandhi takes the blessings of former President Pranab Mukherjee and Manmohan Singh before filing his nomination, Congress Chief Spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjwala tweeted.
The nomination process began on Friday, and today is the last date for filing nominations.
