While the Congress Working Committee (CWC) has finally decided to hold the election for the party’s full-time president following senior Congressman Ghulam Nabi Azad’s resignation, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Sunday said that the party would not survive if a “puppet president” was elected.
Mr. Chavan further said that if Congress leader Rahul Gandhi did not wish to become the party president, then alternative arrangements must be made and a new president be elected through elections.
“If Rahul Gandhi has said that neither he, nor anyone from his family will be Congress president, then why he should not be believed? If he does not wish to be president, then another alternative arrangement will have to be made,” he said.
