Prasada questions party poll schedule

NEW DELHI, OCT. 21. The senior Congress leader, Mr. Jitendra Prasada, who has virtually attacked the leadership on the way the party was being run, today questioned the schedule for the party president's election asking how any election could take place in the absence of a voters list.

Mr. Prasada, who has hinted on taking Ms. Sonia Gandhi, in the election, also justified the issues raised by him in a letter to party workers saying that he had been raising them for the last one year along with Rajesh Pilot.

The notification for the Congress president's election was being issued on October 25 while the chairman of the party's central election authority, Mr. Ram Niwas Mirdha, said that the voters list would be available the same day. The election is scheduled on November 11.

``How can one start the election process when voters are not there?'', Mr. Prasada asked.

Skirting queries whether he would be a candidate, he said how could one say whether there would be a consensus or otherwise when the voters list itself was not not available.

``Every party delegate can contest and there are thousands of delegates'', he said replying to questions in this regard.

Mr. Prasada stayed away from a rally addressed by Ms. Sonia Gandhi in Kanpur today. He said though he had been invited for the rally, he had a meeting of the Parliamentary assurances committee.

- PTI

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