Congress President Election: Gehlot camp brands Pilot traitor, won’t let him be CM

Rajasthan health minister Parsadi Lal Meena had said on Wednesday that MLAs who stayed with Congress during Sachin Pilot's revolt against CM Ashok Gehlot wouldn't accept anyone from that camp. Pilot, along with 18 MLAs, had mounted a challenge to the CM's leadership in July 2020.

Can field contender if final candidate isn't good: G23

Party may call another CLP meet in Jaipur

It is Shashi Tharoor vs Digvijaya Singh for now

Interestingly, senior functionary Digvijaya Singh collected the nomination form from the AICC office on Thursday and announced that he will file the papers.

As the race was thrown open, Congress was finalising a replacement candidate for Gehlot, with Mallikarjun Kharge, a senior Dalit leader, as the lead contender.

There was suspense over the election for the post of Congress president on Thursday as frontrunner and Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot apologised to Sonia Gandhi and announced that he will not contest for the top job. He cited "moral responsibility" for the MLAs' boycott of the meeting called last Sunday in Jaipur as the reason for opting out.

Delhi: Congress leader Anand Sharma leaves from his residence. Earlier tonight, the party's G23 camp leaders, including Manish Tewari, Prithviraj Chavan, BS Hooda, met at his residence ahead of the last date of filing nominations for party's presidential poll.

G-23 leaders met and discussed the whole situation emerging in the run-up to the Congress presidential polls. The leaders will meet again. There is a possibility that a leader from the group will file a nomination tomorrow, for the party's presidential polls: Sources

Days pass b/w collecting,filing & withdrawing nomination papers. Decision will be taken at that time. In English it's called "in politics it's the preponderance of probabilities": M Tewari on if G-23 will support candidates whose names have come for Congress presidential poll so far

Himanta Sarma takes jibe at Congress amid Rajasthan crisis, says party's culture is 'your life starts, ends with Gandhis'

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has hit out at Congress, saying the party has "inside culture that your life ends and starts with Gandhis" and that the loyalty is towards the family and not the party.In an interview with ANI, Sarma also slammed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, saying he wants to enjoy power without responsibility.His remarks have coincided with Congress facing a political crisis in Rajasthan due to the actions of loyalists of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot when the party had convened a legislature party meeting last week as part of the process to choose his successor.

Whatever decision has to be made in the context of Rajasthan, will be taken by her...I am confident that in the next 12-13 months we will once again make a Congress Govt through our hard work: Sachin Pilot after meeting Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi, in Delhi

Digvijaya finally joins race for AICC chief, but uncertainty still persists

After Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot announced on Thursday that he will not be contesting the Congress presidential election, political observers in Madhya Pradesh have started assuming that the route for ex-chief minister and Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh to become chief of the party seems clear to some extent. However, the final outcome will be known only after the contestants for the post file their nominations and the elections are held.

The Nehru-Gandhi family will remain our leader. Whoever becomes the party president will work under their leadership...Our priority is to see how the situation in the country improves, won't let the country divide or the constitution weaken: Digvijaya Singh, Congress MP

Congress issues advisory for party leaders in Rajasthan