The Congress presidential elections were mocked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a poll rally in Gujarat. PM 'congratulated' Rahul Gandhi for 'Aurangzeb Raj'.
The ultimate 'when' of the Indian politics was actualised today when Rahul Gandhi filed his nominations for the president of Congress at party headquarters.
But contrary to media reports, the final announcement will not be made on Monday, party sources told DNA.
The internal election process has various steps and the Grand Old part will like to follow all of them.
By 3 pm, the returning officer is likely to inform about the nominations. So far, no one has filed the nominations apart from Rahul Gandhi.
On Tuesday, the nomination papers would be scrutinised.
However, the big announcement would be made on December 11. It is on this day that the 47-year-old would be declared the Congress boss.
On December 28, which happens to be the Foundation Day of the Congress, Gandhi is likely to take over from his mother Sonia Gandhi.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, one of the leaders who proposed Rahul Gandhi's name, was briefly present at the party headquarters.
The Gandhi scion is likely to emerge as the lone candidate in the fray, clearing the decks for his elevation to the party's top post, succeeding his mother, who has held the post for 19 years in a row.
Among those who proposed Rahul Gandhi's name in the first set of nomination papers were Sonia Gandhi, Motilal Vora, Ahmed Patel, Mohsina Kidwai, Kamal Nath, Ashok Gehlot, Mukul Wasnik, Sheila Dikshit, Tarun Gogoi and Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanaswamy.
Party leaders Manmohan Singh, Oscar Fernandes, P Chidambaram, Sushil Kumar Shinde, Anand Sharma, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his Meghalaya counterpart Mukul Sangma proposed his name in the second set of nomination papers.
Today is the last date for filing nominations.
No one else had filed papers till Sunday, said Mullapally Ramachandran, the chairman of the party's Central Election Authority.
(With PTI inputs)
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