The “one family, one ticket” proposal for the Congress leaders, which is being mentioned with a lot fanfare by the occasion’s prime management at its Chintan Shivir in Rajasthan’s Udaipur, won’t influence most of senior occasion leaders, not to mention Gandhis, whether it is cleared.
The proposed rule’s caveat that these sons, daughters and different family of the Congress leaders who aspire to contest elections ought to have labored for the occasion for a minimum of 5 years will in impact give an exemption from it to a lot of the leaders and their wards, who’re MPs or MLAs, or have already been in public life.
For occasion, each Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son and ex-party president Rahul Gandhi can contest the approaching Lok Sabha elections. The Nehru-Gandhi household’s third member in public life, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, would even be eligible to contest the Lok Sabha polls, slated for April-May 2024, if she needs, provided that by 2024 she would have labored for the occasion for 5 years. She grew to become an All India Congress Committee (AICC) common secretary in January 2019.
Congress chief P. Chidambaram and Karti Chidambaram in New Delhi. (Express Photo by Anil Sharma)
The “one family, one ticket” rule will thus have an effect on solely these Congress leaders who wish to launch their wards or family straight into the hustings. Rahul, as an example, had himself made his debut straightaway as a Lok Sabha candidate of the occasion from Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi within the 2004 common elections. That straight ballot route will now be closed.
Senior Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge and his spouse with son Priyank Kharge at Raj bhavan in Bengaluru. (PTI)
Take the instances of different occasion leaders whose wards are additionally in politics however won’t be affected by the rule.
Among the Congress Working Committee (CWC) members, Digvijaya Singh is a Rajya Sabha MP whereas his son Jaivardhan Singh is an MLA in Madhya Pradesh. A Okay Antony’s son Anil has been working with the digital communications division within the occasion’s Kerala unit for a while. Mallikarjun Kharge’s son Priyank Kharge is an MLA and ex-minister. Harish Rawat’s son Anand Rawat is a former Uttarakhand Congress president. P Chidambaram’s son Karti Chidambaram is a Lok Sabha MP.
Digvijay Singh poses for image together with his newly graduated son Jaivardhan Singh and daughters at Columbia University in New York. (PTI/Archive)
AICC in-charge of Chhattisgarh, P L Punia’s son Tanuj has been energetic because the working president of the UP Congress central zone’s SC division. He had contested the 2017 and 2022 Assembly polls and the 2019 Lok Sabha election. Pramod Tewari’s daughter Aradhana Misra is a two-time MLA. Salman Khurshid and his spouse Louise Khurshid have been in public life and contesting elections for many years. Former Lok Sabha MP Meira Kumar’s son Anshul Avijit grew to become a Congress spokesperson in September 2019.
Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s son Deepender Hooda has been in public life for near twenty years. He grew to become a Lok Sabha MP in 2005 and is at the moment a Rajya Sabha member. Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath’s son Nakul Nath is already a Lok Sabha MP. Sushil Kumar Shinde’s daughter Pariniti has been an MLA since 2009.