The great big election: A non-Gandhi to head Congress after over 2 decades

The new president will be elected on October 17 and October 19 will bring the answer

The G23, the ginger group in the Congress that started its campaign to have a “full-time” president of the party in August 2020, reckons it has won.

“We wrote a letter to the Congress president, asking for elections to throw up an active full-time president. We are now seeing elections take place. So you could say that we have achieved our objective,” said a senior leader in the now-depleted group, as many of its members have quit the Congress.

He added: “Of course, the real test would have been to have elections for the Congress Working Committee (CWC) as well. That will