From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: Former Madhya Pradesh chief ministers Digvijaya Singh or Kamal Nath, both 75, are on the top of the list of official candidates likely to be projected in the Congress President’s election on October 17.
Digvijaya Singh, also a former AICC general secretary, has come close to Rahul Gandhi as the planner of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, as he and his young wife are walking every day alongside Rahul and organising the nitty-gritty of the 5-month long yatra.
Kamal Nath on the other hand is among the loyalists of the Gandhi family. He was summoned to Delhi by Sonia Gandhi on Monday, leading to speculation that he may be either fielded for the Congress President’s post or asked to help clear the crisis in which the party plunged from 82 party MLAs threatening to quit on Sunday.
Other two leaders who may get into the presidential polls on behalf of the party to ease off Ashok Gehlot are long-term AICC general secretary Mukul Wasnik (62) and Rajya Sabha Opposition leader Mallikarjun Kharge. Kerala MP Shashi Tharoor is the first person to enter the presidential race by getting the nomination papers collected from Madhusudan Mistry, chairman of the Central Election Authority of the Congress.
Mistry has gone to hometown Ahmedabad for some personal work and he will be back in Delhi only on Tuesday when the heat on the presidential poll will hot up with the aspirants approaching him for the nomination papers.
