Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 12: Jubilation was witnessed at Congress Party office, Shaheedi Chowk, here today over the unopposed election of Rahul Gandhi as President of All India Congress Committee (AICC).
Led by PCC president, Ghulam Ahmed Mir along with senior functionaries of PCC, DCC and frontal organizations, the Congress workers celebrated the elevation of Rahul Gandhi as president of All India Congress Committee, amidst beating of drums and bursting of crackers. Congress leaders and workers distributed sweets and extended congratulations to Rahul Gandhi.
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Later, addressing the gathering PCC chief, GA Mir congratulated Rahul Gandhi on his unopposed election to the post of President of the party, on behalf of entire rank and file of Congress cadres in the State. He said the entire rank and file of the party is solidly behind the leadership of Rahul Gandhi and described that his uncontested election has proved that he is unchallenged leader of the party in the entire country.
He said that for quite some time the demands for elevation of Rahul Gandhi were emerging from the party cadres from different parts of the country, especially the younger leadership but Rahul Gandhi always maintained that he would prefer to come through the process of organizational elections. He said the process of organizational elections started with the membership drive and elections of booth level delegates upwards to PCC level were held in a transparent manner, by an independent body of the party monitoring the process throughout the country under the overall supervision of election commission. And finally the delegates throughout the country expressed
their unanimous choice in favor of Rahul Gandhi, as no one else came forward to contest or was proposed by the delegates as a candidate.
This shows a unanimous acceptability of Rahul Gandhi in the party cadres who was already leading the party from the front against all odds and challenges of time, from past several years under overall guidance of Sonia Gandhi.
Mir claimed the rank and file of the party feel that an energetic, dynamic and undeterred leader Rahul Gandhi would lead the party more successfully like her mother Sonia Gandhi who commanded lot of respect in the hearts and minds of Congress workers and country men in general.
Prominent among others who spoke and attended the function included senior vice-president Sham Lal Sharma, CLP leader Rigzin Jora, vice-presidents Raman Bhalla, Taj Mohi-ud-Din, GN Monga, Vikar Rasool Wani-MLA, Kanta Bhan, Balbir Singh -MLC, chief spokesperson Ravinder Sharma, Co-Treasurer Rajnish Sharma, general secretaries Vikram Malhotra, Manmohan Singh, Shabir Ahmed Khan and Shah Nawaz Choudhary, Shivdev Singh Prof Gharu Ram Bhagat (Ex-MLAs), DCC Jammu president Anil Chopra, Krishan Lal Gupta, Pawan Raina, Shashi Sharma, Nadeem Shrief Niaz, president NSUI Neeraj Kundan, Satish Sharma, vice-chairman Minority Cell Gurdarshan Singh, DCC functionaries BB Gupta, PS Chouhan, ML Malagar, Dr Ramakant Khajuria, Jyoti Vaid, Naresh Maini, Gourav Chopra, Gourav Kapoor, Pawan Sharma, Chanchal Dogra and others.
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