NEW DELHI: Unease continues to persist in the Congress as another senior leader and party MP Manish Tewari on Wednesday raised concerns over the election process in the party.

In a series of tweets, Tewari raised issues regarding the election process in Congress days after the party announced the schedule for the election of party president.

Taking to Twitter, the Congress leader said, “My colleague in Parliament Karti P Chidambaram is spot on. For any election to be kosher the electoral college must be constitutionally constituted. I read in the papers Anand Sharma had articulated this widely shared concern in the CWC and he even publicly confirmed that he had raised it.”

Tewari’s remarks came after Karti Chidambaram’s tweet that said, “Every election needs a well-defined and clear electoral college. The process of forming the electoral college must also be clear, well-defined and transparent. An ad hoc electoral college is no electoral college.”

In a series of tweets, the Congress MP questioned how can there be a fair and free election without a publicly available electoral roll? “The essence of a fair and free process is names and addresses of electors must be published on Congress website in a transparent manner,” he said.

“Why should someone have to go to every PCC office in the country to find out who the electors are? This does not happen in a club election also with great respect. In interests of fairness and transparency, I urge your good self to publish the entire list of electors on Congress website. How can someone consider running if he/she does not know who the electors are. If someone has to file his/her nomination and gets it proposed by 10 Congresspersons as is requirement CEA can reject it saying they are not valid electors,” he added.

The new demand arose amid reports that the G-23 group would field Shashi Tharoor against the high command candidate. Tewari's demand came after Congress Central Election Authority Chairman Madhusudan Mistry said the voter list was not for the public. Later, the organization's general secretary KC Venugopal also clarified that the list cannot be published.

About 9,000 elected representatives will elect the president on October 17. Congress does not have the habit of publishing the list of these representatives. According to the party leadership, if the list is made public, political opponents are more likely to influence voters to make their nominee win.