New Delhi, September 2
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has written to the party’s central election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry, seeking the publication of electoral roll for the upcoming poll to the post of AICC president, sources said on Friday.
Assam MP Pradyut Bordoloi too has reportedly written to Mistry, asking him to make the electoral roll public.
Their letters come as voices demanding the publication of the electors’ list grow louder by the day and a debate within the party intensifies.
Tharoor, who is contemplating throwing his hat in the ring, has written to Mistry and sought the publication of the electoral roll, the sources said.
The nomination process includes 10 proposers who are Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) delegates. According to the sources, the senior leader has said it is important to know about these delegates as papers can get rejected if their names do not feature in the the final list.
Asked about the letters written by the leaders and the voices seeking publication of the electoral roll growing louder, the Congress downplayed it and said voices have been rising one after the other that Rahul Gandhi should be the next party president.
“If you ask every worker from every corner of the country, whether in private or in public, while drinking tea or having food, he will say the same thing, it is our desire that Rahul Gandhi should take up the Congress president’s post,” party spokesperson Gourav Vallabh said.
