With the Congress not yet electing a full time party chief after the 2019 Lok Sabha polls debacle, the party’s Delhi unit on Sunday passed a unanimous resolution asking Rahul Gandhi to return to the top post “with immediate effect”.
The resolution comes just days after the party’s Working Committee meeting decided to put off the election of the party chief to June, citing preoccupation with the campaign for the April-May assembly polls in four states, including West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, and one union territory.
Several senior Congress leaders, including P. Chidambaram, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma, asked for immediate organisational polls during the Congress Working Committee meeting.
However, other leaders including former union minister A.K. Antony besides Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his Punjab counterpart Amarinder Singh said it should be held after state polls.
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The arguments put forth by all the Congress leaders reportedly prompted Gandhi to declare: “Once and for all, finish it and move on.”
After the Congress suffered humiliating drubbing in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Rahul Gandhi resigned as the party chief and asked the party's Working Committee to choose his successor.
Sonia Gandhi took over as the Congress interim chief after Rahul’s resignation.