Tharoor Gets Nod From Sonia? But Sources Say Party Won’t Name Official Candidate

With under a month left for the long-awaited election for Congress president, chorus is growing louder in the party for Rahul Gandhi’s elevation to the top post with over half a dozen state units pushing for it amid uncertainty and suspense persisted over whether he would take on the mantle.

After Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Gujarat units of the Congress demanded that Gandhi be made party chief, the party’s Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir and Mumbai units passed resolutions calling for his elevation to the post of president on Monday.

Polling for the Congress president election will take place on October 17 and the results will be announced on October 19.

The Congress party, meanwhile, will be releasing today the list of delegates that make up the electoral college for the party president election.