Schedule for Cong chief poll to be out soon

New Delhi: The detailed schedule for the election of the Congress president will be out soon and the whole process in all likelihood will be completed around the given time-frame of September 20 without any "major postponement", party sources said on Tuesday.

 Uncertainty over party presidency is looming large with several party insiders saying Rahul Gandhi has not changed his stance of not becoming AICC president. The party's election authority has said it will stick to the schedule of electing a new chief by September 20. Chairman of the party's Central Election Authority Madhusudan Mistry had said it was up to the Congress Working Committee (CWC) to approve the final date for the election of the Congress chief but "from our side, we are ready".

 Asked if there could be a delay in the schedule announced, the source said there may be a delay of just a few days, if at all.

 "It won't be that the election will be postponed to November," the source said.

After a crucial meeting of its working committee, the Congress had announced in October last year that the election of the new Congress president will be held between August 21 and September 20 this year