New Delhi

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi is unlikely to contest the party's presidential elections.

Media reports quoting party sources said, Rahul Gandhi will not return to Delhi leaving the party's Bharat Jodo Yatra. Presently, the yatra is in Kerala and will enter Karnataka on September 29.

The last date for filing the nomination is September 30.

Earlier on Tuesday, Congress leader KC Venugopal, who is participating in the Kerala leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, arrived in the national capital upon a call by the party's interim president Sonia Gandhi.

He was in the Alappuzha district of Kerala with Rahul Gandhi.

On Monday, Congress leader and Member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor received the nod from Sonia Gandhi to contest in the upcoming poll.

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The party president elections are slated to be held on October 17. The result will be declared two days later.