Last Update: 13 July 2022, 09:23 AM IST
File photo of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. (Image: PTI)
Rahul Gandhi, who is often criticized by the BJP for foreign trips, will not attend a crucial meeting of the party on Thursday to prepare for the ‘Bharat Jodi Yatra’ and internal elections of the Congress.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Sources said he left abroad for a short personal visit on Tuesday, and is likely to return by Sunday, ahead of the presidential election and the monsoon session of Parliament on July 18.
However, the party did not give any information about his visit and called it private.
Gandhi, who is often criticized by the BJP for foreign trips, will on Thursday not attend a crucial meeting of the party to prepare for the ‘Bharat Jodi Yatra’ and internal elections of the Congress, where all the general secretaries, in-charge and PCC president are involved. Huh. have been invited.
The election of the party president is likely to be discussed in the Congress meeting to be held on Thursday. The post of Congress President is currently held by Sonia Gandhi after Rahul Gandhi resigned following the defeat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Nepal in early May sparked controversy after the BJP released photographs of him at a nightclub in Kathmandu. The Congress then retaliated, saying there was nothing wrong with a journalist’s personal visit to the wedding.
Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Nepal came just after the party’s poor performance in the assembly elections in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh and other states.
In late May, Rahul again went abroad, paving the way for questions from the BJP again on his visit. The BJP questioned Rahul Gandhi’s refusal to seek political approval for his visit to Cambridge in the UK, however, the Congress said no such permission was required.
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