NEW DELHI. Rahul Gandhi is expected to file his nomination papers today for the post of Congress president at the party headquarters. Here are all the latest developments on the internal elections in the grand old party:

1. Today, December 4 is the last date for filing of nominations for the post of Congress president. No one has filed nomination papers so far, according to Mullapally Ramachandran, the chairman of the Congress party's Central Election Authority.

2. Rahul, currently party vice president, is expected to be accompanied by a host of senior leaders including current Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and former prime minister Manmohan Singh. Both are expected to sign papers as proposers of Rahul’s candidature.

3. Six chief ministers, including Punjab’s Captain Amarinder Singh, Karnataka's Siddaramaiah, Himachal Pradesh's Virbhadra Singh, Puducherry's V. Narayanasamy, Meghalaya's Mukul Sangma and Mizoram's Lal Thanhawla are expected to extend support to Rahul’s candidature.

4. Senior party leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad, A K Antony and Ahmed Patel will also sign the nomination papers expressing their confidence in the Congress vice president.

5. With Rahul likely to be the only candidate in the fray, he could be declared the next Congress chief tomorrow itself, after the nominations have been scrutinised. Rahul will succeed his mother Sonia, who has held the post for almost two decades in a row.

6. Rahul’s coronation has been talked about in party circles for over two years and his elevation will put an end to murmurs that the Congress scion is shying away from taking on bigger role.

7. Amarinder yesterday threw his weight behind Rahul for the post of AICC president. He described Rahul as "mature and competent" and hailed his elevation as a good sign for the party.

8. The election is being held in the aftermath of a one-man rebellion by the secretary of the Maharashtra Congress leader Shehzad Poonawala . Last week, Poonawala called the party elections “rigged” and undemocratic.

9. Congress communications in-charge Randeep Surjewala shrugged off the criticism by claiming that the election was being supervised by the Election Commission of India and was therefore “fair”.

10. Yesterday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked about Poonawala in a campaign speech in Gujarat. He applauded the rebel Congress leader for his "bravery" and accused the Congress of trying to muzzle his voice.

