(MENAFN- Gulf Times) Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi is likely to be elected as the party chief after Diwali, with the nearly six-month-long electoral process nearing completion and the schedule of the party president's election to be announced soon.
According to Congress sources, members of the party's Central Election Authority (CEA), which is overseeing the election, are expected to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi in a day or so to apprise her of the completion of various phases of the poll.
The sources said the Congress president would then call a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) to approve a tentative schedule of the polls and then it would be notified by the CEA.
The sources said that the meeting of the CWC, the party's highest-decision making body, could take place on October 15.
Most states where the organisational elections were held have completed the process of electing members of Pradesh Congress Committees (PCCs), which form the electoral college for the election. They have also passed unanimous resolutions that Rahul should take over as the president of the All India Congress Committee (AICC).
Party sources said the states which have elected members to the PCC and passed the resolution for appointment of Rahul as party chief include Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Haryana, Rajasthan, Delhi, Maharashtra, Kerala, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Assam and Madhya Pradesh.
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