NEW DELHI: After attributing the last few organisational decisions to AICC, Congress on Thursday appointed Mohan Markam as new chief of unit and credited the decision to Congress President.
While the party still fought shy of naming the author as “Congress president Rahul Gandhi” as used to be done before results, the partial rollback came amid concerns that repeated public assertions about the Gandhi scion having stepped down has created an impression of vacuum at the top which was compounding the post-debacle woes.
After attributing the last few organisational decisions to AICC, Congress on Thursday appointed Mohan Markam as new chief of unit and credited the decision to Congress President.
The irony behind the announcement of new Chhattisgarh chief was not lost on party men as it came just a day after Rahul Gandhi told a meeting of Haryana leaders that he could not take decision about the state leadership as he was not the party president any more. If the situation appears befuddling, insiders conceded they were still to emerge from the resignation drama.
However, after back-to-back assertions by Rahul that he would not take back his decision, Congress insiders are reconciled to finding a successor and have begun to talk of possible candidates.
A senior party member said the candidate would surely be from the majority community, given the “new political realities” created by BJP. Also, he would have to be “articulate with public recognition and national profile”.