SHILLONG: Chief minister, Mukul Sangma will lead a 10-member delegation to New Delhi on December 4 with the All India Congress Committee poised to elect Rahul Gandhi as its president.
Speaking to media persons on the sidelines of a Cabinet meeting, Sangma said the party’s national vice president Rahul Gandhi will be the nominee for the top post, which is currently held by his mother Sonia Gandhi.
The Congress has recently announced that filing of nomination will be held on December 4, voting on December 16 and counting of votes on December 19.
Sangma said the state leadership is looking forward to Rahul becoming the next president of Congress.
“I personally on behalf of the party from this part of the country am waiting with great joy to see him as Congress president,” he said.
“Other than the leaders from the Nehru family, I have not seen that understanding of our way of life, our vibrant culture and the tribal ethos, the kind of connect they have with us, the creation of the state, the special
treatment for tribal states – all these things are linked with the understanding of the Northeast and their unquestionable love for the people of the region,” Sangma said.
