A tussle between Sonia Gandhi and Jitendra Prasada for the Congress president post becomes inevitable with the dissident leader sticking to his stand of remaining in the fray for the November 12 elections at the close of withdrawal on Sunday. “Both candidates are in the fray,” the Central Election Authority (CEA) Chairman Ram Niwas Mirdha told PTI at the end of withdrawal. Prasada, who is taking on Gandhi, had earlier declared that there was no question of his withdrawal as he was on a fight unto finish. Prasada has thereby become the first Congress leader to fight against a member of the Nehru-Gandhi family for the post of party president. The last party president's election in 1997 had witnessed a triangular contest with Sharad Pawar and Rajesh Pilot challenging the then incumbent Sitaram Kesri. Prasada has remained in the fray despite almost the entire Congress Working Committee rallying behind Sonia Gandhi and declaring its unanimous and whole-hearted support to the candidature of Gandhi and requesting our colleagues in the electoral college to do so. While Prasada has declared his move was to strengthen inner party democracy and he was not against the Nehru-Gandhi family, almost the entire CWC in a joint statement on Saturday dismissed Prasada's charge that the party was lacking inner party democracy. Bureau Report