Ashok Gehlot interview: ‘Two-posts issue cannot come up in an election … I believe Udaipur Declaration is for two nominated posts’ | Political Pulse News,The Indian Express
Rajasthan CM tells The Indian Express that though the principle does not apply to elections, a party president who holds two posts 'will not be able to justify the Congress presidency'.
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HomePolitical PulseAshok Gehlot interview: ‘Two-posts issue cannot come up in an election … I believe Udaipur Declaration is for two nominated posts’
Ashok Gehlot interview: ‘Two-posts issue cannot come up in an election … I believe Udaipur Declaration is for two nominated posts’
Rajasthan CM tells The Indian Express that though the principle does not apply to elections, a party president who holds two posts 'will not be able to justify the Congress presidency'.
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New Delhi | September 22, 2022 6:54:16 pm
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is in the running for the Congress president's post. (Express Archives)Hours before Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday reiterated that the party’s one person-one-post commitment was expected to be maintained for the presidential polls, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot told The Indian Express that the principle laid down in the Congress’s Udaipur Declaration was meant for nominated posts and not elections. However, he added that a leader who gets elected “will not be able to justify the Congress presidency” if he or she holds two posts. Excerpts:
You met Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday. She, I believe, told you that nobody from the Gandhi family would contest the Congress presidential election this time and the family would remain neutral.
You are right. She has been saying that. She said ‘we want to remain neutral’, that nobody from the Gandhi family will contest. Aur non-Gandhi ki baat hai toh phir achha rahega ki jo bhi maidan main utarna chahe utar jaaye (those who want to contest the election should enter the fray). It is good for inner-party democracy. We also discussed national politics, Rahul Gandhi, (Bharat Jodo) Yatra, and Congress presidential elections … she wants to be neutral. They will also not sign as proposers in the nomination papers of any candidate. I met her because I wanted to take her blessings.
So it has become very clear that Rahul Gandhi is not contesting for the post of Congress president. Jairam Ramesh said so in as many words on Wednesday.
It has come to my knowledge that he (Jairam) has said that. Even then I have been demanding that Rahul Gandhi should become Congress president. In Rajasthan, it was I who first raised this demand. I think it is still my responsibility to talk to him one last time.
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