Rahul Gandhi

The Congress will accept nominations for the party chief's post till September 30. The elections are scheduled for October 17 and the results will be declared on October 19. Ashok Gehlot called a meeting of Congress MLAs on Tuesday night, ahead of his visit to Delhi to meet party chief Sonia Gandhi amid speculation that he may contest for the post.

Shashi Tharoor met with Sonia Gandhi on Monday and expressed his intention to contest for AICC president in the upcoming elections. According to sources, the Congress chief has also stated that she will be 'neutral' in the polls. The upcoming elections will undoubtedly be historic, as the new president will take over from Sonia Gandhi, the party's longest-serving leader.

The elections for the post of the Congress president will be held next month. The filing of nominations for the post of the president begins in three days.Polling for the Congress president election will take place on October 17 and the results will be announced on October 19.

September 19 is the 12th day of the Congress' yatra, which began September 7 in Tamil Nadu's Kanyakumari and will travel across twelve states and two union territories over a five-month period, clocking over 3,500 km before ending in Jammu and Kashmir.

Nominations for the post of Congress president can be filed from September 24 to September 30. The last day of filing the nomination is September 30, 2022 and the last date of withdrawal of nominations is October 8.

Amarinder Singh’s meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah on September 12 was being seen as the BJP’s final move to get Singh and his newly-floated party on board.He will also merge his newly-formed Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) with the saffron party.

PM Modi is also scheduled to launch the National Logistic Policy today at Vigyan Bhawan. The logistic policy is aimed at bringing down the logistic costs and improving the competitiveness of domestic goods in the global market.

Rahul Gandhi is leading the yatra, which started on September 7 in Kanyakumari. It will travel through 12 states, covering 3,750 kms, and culminate in Kashmir after 150 days.

On Wednesday, two teenage sisters were found hanging from a tree in a sugarcane field located about a kilometre away from their house in Nighasan police station limits in Lakhimpur Kheri.

Rahul Gandhi has been attacking the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ideological fountainhead Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) since the beginning of the march that will cover 3,750 kilometres over 150 days from Kanyakumari to Kashmir.