Rahul Gandhi only valid candidate in fray for Congress President post, says Returning Officer

Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday took one step forward towards the formal process of being elevated as the Congress President.

Returning Officer M Ramachandran after scrutiny of nomination papers have declared that the Gandhi scion is the lone valid candidate left in the fray. Infact he was the only one who had filed nomination for the post on Monday. The formal ratification that the process has gone through without any glitch was confirmed by the Returning Officer.

89 nomination papers all proposing names of #RahulGandhi have been received, have scrutinized each &found all valid. There is now only one validly nominated candidate that is Rahul Gandhi left in the fray for Congress president election: M Ramachandran, Returning officer

— ANI (@ANI) December 5, 2017

There is now only one validly nominated candidate that is #RahulGandhi left in the fray for Congress president election: M Ramachandran, Returning officer pic.twitter.com/h3TZPZ5Y7D

— ANI (@ANI) December 5, 2017

On Monday, amidst much fanfare, Rahul filed papers at the Congress’s 24 Akbar Road headquarters in New Delhi. The party sought to project the election as democratic to counter the BJP’s charges of dynastic politics. …read more