TAP TO UNMUTE Shehzad Poonawalla has made some stunning charges against Rahul Gandhi | Photo Credit: Times Now

New Delhi: Merely a week before the Congress party holds the elections to elect Rahul Gandhi as the party president, a member of the party has come out with a sensational charge, that the elections have been rigged.

Shehzad Poonawalla, the spokesperson of the Congress party and a relative of the Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra, has written to Rahul Gandhi’s office claiming that the poll process has been stacked in Rahul Gandhi's favour just because he belongs to the Gandhi family.

In his emails, he has alleged that delegates who form panel are not elected by a secret norm as per party constitution, but the delegates have been appointed at the behest of state presidents who owe their careers to the Gandhi family.

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Speaking to Times Now, Poonawalla has suggested that Rahul Gandhi should step down from his post as the Vice President and contest the elections as an ordinary member of the Congress.

“I want Rahul to be the Congress president not as a Gandhi but as Rahul,” Shehzad Poonawalla stated.

The Congress has not given an official response to Poonawalla's claims.

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47-year-old Rahul Gandhi is set to be coronated as the party President on December 19.​ A member of Parliament from Amethi, Uttar Pradesh and Member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs, Rahul Gandhi currently serves as the vice-president of the Congress, the chairperson of the Indian Youth Congress and the National Students Union of India.

He is the second-highest-ranked member of the Congress Working Committee.

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