Rasheed Kidwai
Senior journalist and author
The internal tussle in the Congress is turning procedural and legal. The grand old party’s Central Election Authority (CEA) has prepared a list of AICC delegates and sought time from party’s interim chief Sonia Gandhi. Sonia is expected to summon the Congress Working Committee (CWC) to approve and announce a party poll schedule.
According to Madhusudan Devram Mistry, who heads the CEA, the new president will be elected by 1,000-odd AICC delegates and not by the traditional electoral college consisting of Pradesh Congress Committee delegates (numbering around 13,000) spread all over the country. Article XVIII (h) of the Congress constitution stipulates election of a ‘regular president’ by the AICC if the president resigns.