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Leaders say strengthen his hands, mention posters seeking his return as president
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Congress rally agenda: price rise; Congress rally refrain: Rahul
Leaders say strengthen his hands, mention posters seeking his return as president
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New Delhi | Updated: September 4, 2022 5:55:04 pm
While Rahul has held out on resuming the Congress president's post since 2019, when he resigned following the party's second big electoral loss in the Lok Sabha, a section of the leaders remain hopeful of persuading him to change his mind. (Express photo by Prem Nath Pandey)The Congress is ostensibly heading for election to the party president’s post in which Rahul Gandhi does not want to participate. However, leader after leader used Sunday’s big rally by the Congress against rising prices, to hail him as a leader of the party whose hands, they said, have to be strengthened.
Gauging the mood, even prominent G-23 leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda joined the pro-Rahul slogans as he walked onto the stage at the Ramlila Maidan here.
The former Haryana Chief Minister is under attack from a section of the party leaders for recently meeting Ghulam Nabi Azad, after the latter quit the Congress with a scathing attack on Rahul. As the latter walked in to deliver his speech at the Ramlila rally, Hooda immediately raised the ‘Rahul Gandhi zindabad’ slogan and exhorted the crowd to join him.
Earlier, another G-23 leader, Mukul Wasnik, declared that “Sonia Gandhi is our leader, Rahul Gandhi is our leader”. His party colleague and Congress leader in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury began his speech by mentioning a poster held aloft by some workers which read, “We want Rahul Gandhi as INC president”. He did not elaborate. Rahul was present when he spoke.
While Rahul has held out on resuming the Congress president’s post since 2019, when he resigned following the party’s second big electoral loss in the Lok Sabha, a section of the leaders remain hopeful of persuading him to change his mind.
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