Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is likely to takeover as the Party President from his mother, Sonia Gandhi, at the 84th session of the All India Congress Committee that is to be held in September.
Official sources state that the session was likely to be held in Bengaluru, capital of one of the few large States where the Congress is in power. The last full session of the AICC was held at Burari in New Delhi in December 2010.
The Congress vice-president, after remaining absent for quite some while, led the Opposition charge against the government after Parliament resumed work on April 20.
Though a section of Congress leaders are clamouring for appointing Rahul Gandhi party president immediately without waiting for the organisational elections and other work to get over, sources close to him state that he is, however, interested in building a “greater momentum” on the political campaign against the Modi government’s land acquisition ordinance and the agrarian distress, along with other issues.
The party is in the middle of a membership drive, that had been scheduled to end on May 15. The drive would be followed by a two-month process of organisational elections. Sources report that the party high command is all set to extend the membership drive by another month or two. The organisational elections will have ended on August 15 according to the current schedule, but will now end in mid-September after which the AICC session to elect the members of the Central Working Committee followed by the election of the president will be held.
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