AMN / NEW DELHI
Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi today filed his nomination papers for the post of party president at the party headquarters in New Delhi.
Party members including former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Ahmed Patel, Sheila Dikshit, Sushil Kumar Shinde, Jyotiraditya Scindia were present at the event. Party leaders Kamal Nath, Sheila Dikshit, Motilal Vora and Tarun Gogoi filed first set of nominations as proposers for Mr Gandhi.
Chairman of the party’s Central Election Authority Mullapally Ramachandran said, no one else filed papers till Sunday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi reacted sharply saying, Congress has gone bankrupt, as it is going to make a person its president, who is out on bail in a corruption case.
He compared the proposed elevation of Rahul Gandhi as Congress president to dynastic rule of Mughals.