Rahul Gandhi is likely to be elevated from Congress Vice President to President replacing his mother as the party chief, reports The Hindu. The appointment is set to take place in September during the 84th session of the All India Congress Committee in Bengaluru. The Congress is in power in the state. Congress chief minister Siddaramaiah will foot the bills of the high-profile two-day session.
Earlier AICC sesion had taken place at Burari in New Delhi in December 2010. Many Congress leaders were of the opinion Rahul Gandhi should have been made the party President right after the Budget Session of Parliament ended.
The Congress vice-president, was absent for the first leg of the session, after going on a break for at least two months. After his return he led the Opposition charge against the government over issues of Land Bill and recently on One Rank One Pension issue.
Though some Congress members are eager that Rahul take over as the President, he is said to be interested in building “greater momentum” on their political campaign against the Modi government’s land acquisition ordinance and the agrarian crisis.
The party is in the middle of a membership drive, which was scheduled to have ended on May 15. The drive will be followed by a two-month process of organisational elections.
Congress is in the middle of a membership drive, which is supposed to extend for another month. The organisational elections were said to end on August 15 will now end in mid-September following the AICC session in order to elect the members of the Central Working Committee. After this the election of the president will be held.