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File photo: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses a gathering during an election rally.
Interim chief Sonia Gandhi s meeting with senior Congress leaders on Saturday morning ended after almost five hours and sources said nobody in the meeting objected to Rahul Gandhi s name from being proposed for the party chief s position again, although there will be Chintan shivir or brainstorming camps soon.
Sources said all leaders want Rahul Gandhi to take the responsibility of party president at which point he said it should be left to the electoral process of the party. The Congress party is going through a leadership crisis after several stalwarts in the past few months have concerns and also wrote to the interim chief about it.
Published: Saturday, December 19, 2020, 20:41 [IST]
New Delhi, Dec 18: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday met a group of leaders, including some who had written to her seeking complete organisational overhaul, where they discussed ways to strengthen the party at all levels and it was decided to hold conclaves similar to Panchmarhi and Shimla to chalk out the way ahead.
Congress leaders Pawan Bansal, Prithviraj Chavan and Harish Rawat after a meeting with party s Interim President Sonia Gandhi
The five-hour meeting, which also included some of Sonia Gandhi s close associates, was significant as it was the first effort by the Congress leadership for a rapprochement with the letter-writers who had raised questions over the leadership.
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Congress leaders say the issue of lack of gap between top leadership and rest of the party was addressed at the meeting, all where all leaders took their turn to speak at length.
Fatima Khan 19 December, 2020 8:33 pm IST Text Size:
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New Delhi: Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi Saturday met over a dozen party leaders, four months after 23 leaders wrote to her demanding a full-time and active leadership.
The meeting, which lasted nearly five hours, saw the presence of some of these 23 leaders, including Anand Sharma, Manish Tewari, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Shashi Tharoor, Prithviraj Chavan and Bhupinder Hooda.