It is now official. Rahul Gandhi is set to take over as Congress president on December 16.
Senior party leader Mullappally Ramachandran made the announcement on Monday afternoon. “Eighty-nine nomination proposals were received. All were valid. Since there was only one candidate, I hereby declare Rahul Gandhi elected as the president of Indian National Congress,” he said.
Rahul will succeed his mother, Sonia Gandhi, as the party president. He had been elevated to the post of vice president of the party in 2013.
The handover of the party from one generation to ye another of the Nehru-Gandhi family comes as Sonia’s Gandhi’s has suffered from an extended period of ill health.
The appointment will come just days after Gujarat votes in its second and final phase of the Assembly election.
Source: Zee News