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Congress leader Madhusudan Mistry hits out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP for criticising election of Rahul Gandhi as Congress president<\/i><\/p>\n
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi lapping up Congress\u2019 Maharashtra unit secretary Shehzad Poonawalla\u2019s allegation of the Congress presidential elections being rigged and terming Rahul Gandhi\u2019s elevation as \u201cAurangzeb Raj\u201d, the Grand Old Party has dared Modi and the BJP to declare the process that the saffron party followed while appointing Amit Shah as its president.<\/p>\n
On Monday<\/span><\/span>, Congress vice president filed his nomination in the Congress party\u2019s presidential polls with as many as 890 party delegates \u2013 including incumbent president and his mother Sonia Gandhi, former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and a host of other senior party functionaries \u2013 proposing his candidature.<\/p>\n Although Rahul\u2019s elevation, albeit through an internal election process conducted under guidelines set by the Election Commission and Congress constitution, is a foregone conclusion, the otherwise mundane presidential polls of the party have triggered a war of words ever since Poonawalla\u2019s rebellion.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_raw_html]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[\/vc_raw_html][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Last week, Poonawalla, a Secretary with the Maharashtra unit of the Congress, had alleged that Rahul Gandhi was being \u2018selected and not elected\u2019 as the party chief and that the entire election process was rigged to ensure that the Nehru-Gandhi scion wins.<\/p>\n Shehzad claimed that Rahul was being elevated as Congress president only because he had a \u2018Gandhi\u2019 surname. Shehzad had dared Rahul to resign as Congress vice president and contest as a common Congress worker without using the clout that his surname has in the sycophancy-prone party, while adding that if Rahul was prepared to do so, he would contest the polls too.<\/p>\n