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The Big Story: Once more, with feeling
This is one election that the Congress, at least technically, cannot lose.
By the end of this year or in early 2021, the party is expected to elect a new full-time president. Last week, Madhusudan Mistry, who heads the party’s election team, sent a note to state units saying, “This is to inform you that the [All India Congress Committee] intends to convene its meeting as soon as possible, and you will be intimated as soon as dates and venue are finalised.”
As is often the case with the Congress, there is a script for how things should proceed and it is quite straightforward: Rahul Gandhi, who was president when the party received its second consecutive drubbing in the 2019 general election and even lost from a constituency that had been a party stronghold for decades, is expected to return to the post after a brief period of voluntary exile.
If that were to...
