Rahul Gandhi Only Candidate Left in Running for Congress President

Rahul Gandhi will be accompanied by a host of senior leaders including Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh.

Rahul Gandhi filed his nomination papers for the election to the post of Congress president on Monday, 4 December. He was accompanied by a host of senior party leaders, including Congress president Sonia Gandhi and former prime minister Manmohan Singh.

Gandhi has emerged the lone candidate in the fray, and decks have been cleared for him to succeed his mother, who has headed the Congress party for 19 consecutive years.

• Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi files his nomination papers for the post of party president on Monday, 4 December
  
• No other candidate is in the fray
  
• The election, if necessary, will be held on 16 December
  
• If elected, Gandhi will succeed his mother Sonia, who has been the party president for 19 years in a row
  

Rahul Gandhi Only Candidate in the Fray

Returning Officer, M Ramachandran said:

There is now only one validly nominated candidate, that is Rahul Gandhi, left in the fray for Congress president election.

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Modi Suffering From Rahul-Phobia: Surjewala

The Congress on Monday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying he is suffering from a "Rahul Gandhi-phobia" and asked why he was silent on questions being raised by his own senior party leaders.

"Why is the Prime Minister suffering from Rahul Gandhi phobia? Why is he so much stressed?" Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala told reporters here ahead of party Vice President Rahul Gandhi's filing of nomination for its presidential post.

He also said that Modi's "love for Shehzad (Poonawalla), Shahzada (BJP chief Amit Shah's son Jai Shah) and Shourya (National Security Advisor Ajit Doval's son)" is well known to the world.

"But will Modiji tell when he will answer the questions of his own senior party leaders like Arun Shourie, Yashwant Sinha and Shatrughan Sinha?" he asked.

Farooq Abdullah Welcomes Rahul's Coronation

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah welcomed Rahul Gandhi’s coronation.

This is a good sign that the young brigade is stepping forward. I hope he takes India to great heights where everyone lives with harmony. The post of PM lies in distant future, for now he must work hard to unite India and bring everyone together.

Farooq Abdullah