NSUI chief to be elected by ballot system

NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi’s “democratization” formula is set to take another step forward with the Congress deciding that the chief of its students’ wing, NSUI, should be elected and not nominated.
An electoral college of state NSUI chiefs and national office-bearers will elect the chief of the students’ wing through a ballot. The party has shortlisted candidates for the election which would be held soon, the outfit’s spokesman Amrish Pandey said.
Sources said 12 candidates were shortlisted from 52 applicants for the top post and were taken to Rahul for him to nominate one of them as the chief. But the Congress heir apparent decided against it and “delegated his powers to state presidents and national office-bearers”.
The idea to further spread the “democratization” net in Congress raises doubts about speculation that Rahul’s experiments were set to take a beating in the wake of the party’s Lok Sabha defeat.