Elderly leader Mallikarjun Kharge also joined the race for the post of Congress President.

A day after announcing that he would contest the election of Congress President, senior leader Digvijaya Singh today announced that he is dropping out of the race.

This decision has come after

was named as the candidate supported by the Gandhi family.

75-year-old Digvijay Singh said, "Kharge ji is my leader and my senior. I asked him yesterday if he wants to contest the elections. He said no. I met him again today. I told him if you are contesting elections. If so, I am completely with you. I cannot even think of going against you."

Two senior leaders Shashi Tharoor and Mallikarjun Kharge have filed their nominations for the post of Congress President.

Digvijay Singh had not met current Congress chief Sonia Gandhi before joining the race for the post.

Sources reveal that Digvijay was well aware that his role was as a dummy candidate until the Gandhi family decided on their choice.

His initial support was in favor of Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot but when Gehlot was clearly told that he would have to give up his Rajasthan CM post to serve as party president.

Talking about the Gandhi family, this desert state was meant as a quick solution to this long-standing problem for Rajasthan.

Sachin Pilot, 45, is eyeing the post of CM, when the party won the assembly elections in 2018, Pilot was promised that he and Gehlot would share the post alternately.

Gehlot's Delhi 'Move'

The Gandhi family would have had a trusted ally in the form of a party pilot as the head of the Rajasthan government.

It was kind of like two hunts with one arrow.

However, after the recent developments, Gehlot has also taken himself out of the race for the post of party president. 

Significantly, after Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot was out of the race, Digvijay Singh had said on Thursday that he would contest the election for the post of party chief and file his nomination on Friday.

He had also taken 10 nomination papers for this.

12 Madhya Pradesh Congress MLAs were also ready to be his proposer but today, on the last day of nomination, Digvijay refused to contest after 80-year-old Mallikarjun Kharge's entry.

Gehlot, who was earlier the best-loved of the Gandhi family, pulled out of the Congress president's election yesterday, taking moral responsibility for the revolt of his pro-MLAs in Rajasthan.

His supporters had refused to attend the Congress Legislature Party meeting convened by party observers last Sunday (September 25) and held a parallel meeting demanding that Gehlot be elected his successor in the state if he becomes Congress president. be given the right.

The party considered this as indiscipline. The Rajasthan chief minister had yesterday met Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi and handed her an apology letter before announcing her exit from the presidential election. 

Gehlot said that he had apologized for the "indiscipline" of the Congress MLAs in Rajasthan by taking "moral responsibility" and would not contest for the post of the Speaker.

She had also said that she alone would decide whether she would continue to be the Chief Minister of Rajasthan.

Gehlot said, "The posts are not important for me. Whatever the high command decides, I will do that."

He said that he has been in various positions for nearly 50 years, and they are no longer important to him. It is believed that Kharge's selection for the post of president is almost certain. 

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