Manish Tewari Likely To Join Congress Contest

Congress President Election Contest!

New Delhi: Congress MP Manish Tewari may become the second member of the party's "G-23" group of dissenters to join the increasingly chaotic contest for Congress chief after Shashi Tharoor, Hint given by sources.

On Thursday, Following Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's pull-out and Digvijaya Singh's entry in the election, some of the G-23 leaders, including Prithviraj Chavan, Bhupinder Hooda and Manish Tewari, met at the residence of Anand Sharma and are learnt to have discussed the situation.

A decision on whether Manish Tiwari - who has been keen to run - should contest the election would be taken on Friday morning, sources said.

On Friday, 30 September 2022, Shashi Tharoor was part of the G-23, and will be filing his nomination papers for the top party post.

Mr. Tewari later told reporters that no one has filed the nominations yet and things will be clear only after Friday.

He said the G-23 group sat for deliberations and discussed the situation.

Mr. Chavan also said that it was good that internal polls were being held in a democratic manner and stated that they had earlier thanked Congress chief Sonia Gandhi for the fair elections.

"Let us see who files the nominations, and we will support the best candidate in the fray," he said after the meeting.

The G-23 grouping had written to Sonia Gandhi seeking organisational overhaul and internal polls at all levels.

The Congress's bid to hold elections to pick a new, non-Gandhi chief, has seen several plot twists.