The Congress will next month begin the process of organisational polls, including for its President's post. 

With this, a key demand of the group of dissenters, also known as G-23, will be met. 

This group, comprising senior leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad, Kapil Sibal, Anand Sharma, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Manish Tewari, Shashi Tharoor and Mukul Wasnik, had written a letter to Congress President Sonia Gandhi in August 2000 seeking organisational elections from top to bottom as well as to the Congress Working Committee (CWC), and a full-time and visible leadership among other things. 

According to a schedule approved by the CWC on Saturday, the year-long process will be kickstarted with a membership drive that will begin on November 1 this year and go on till March 31 next year. 

Between April and July, organisational elections from the district to state levels will be held. 

The process to elect the Congress President's post will start on August 21 and culminate on September 20.

The elections to the CWC and other bodies will be held during the party plenary anytime between October and December next year. 

Rahul Gandhi was elected the Congress President in December 17 for five years. He had taken over from Sonia Gandhi who decided to pass on the baton after remaining at the helm for nearly two decades since 1998.

However, Rahul Gandhi resigned from the post after the party's dismal show in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections taking responsibility for the drubbing. The Congress managed to win just 52 seats.

Rahul Gandhi resigned during a CWC meeting on May 25 after which the Congress leaders tried to persuade him to withdraw his resignation.

However, he refused to do so and finally on August 10, the CWC requested Sonia Gandhi to take charge of the organisation as it's interim president till a new chief is elected within one year.

She agreed after much persuasion on the condition that the party will elect a new president soon.

However, it is over two years now and she continues to function as the interim Congress President and going by the schedule will remain on the post till September next year.