Congress Postpones Internal Elections Because of COVID-19 Surge
The Congress Working Committee has also set up fact-finding teams in all the states where it recently lost assembly elections.
Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. Photo: PTI/Atul Yadav
Politics10/May/2021
New Delhi: The Congress on Monday decided to postpone its internal elections to choose a new president on account of the alarming situation of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a Congress Working Committee meeting held in January, the party postponed the internal elections until June 2021, keeping in mind the impending assembly elections in four states and one union territory in May.
The January meeting was held amidst growing demands by a rebel group of 23 leaders to fix the leadership issue in the party, and replace the interim president Sonia Gandhi by choosing a new leader who can steer the party in the future. The Gandhi loyalists had then prevailed over the rebels by postponing the elections until June 2021, citing that t
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There have been a couple of interesting developments in India, a new star in the Lok Sabha and recent State elections, which I am sure will interest to my readers. A meteor detonated in the in any case rumbustious chamber of the Indian Parliament and it has for a change been a woman. State Elections have been a moderate, but only moderate setback for Modi and the BJP but since there is no sign of an alliance that can be cobbled together to form an alternative government, on current trends India is heading for an inclusive result in 2024.