New Delhi:
Rahul Gandhi will consider returning as Congress president, sources said on Saturday afternoon after it emerged that several senior leaders, including the chief ministers of Punjab, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh as well as former defense minister AK Antony, have asked the Kerala MP to visit him. urged. Back.
Mr. Gandhi stepped down as Congress President two years ago after the party’s horrendous performance in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections; His resignation plunged the party into a leadership crisis from which it has yet to fully recover and prompted the reinstatement of his mother Sonia Gandhi as interim chief.
The statements urging Mr. Gandhi’s return as party chief were made at today’s meeting of the Congress Working Committee – the party’s highest decision-making body – which sources said had all but decided against a full-scale meeting to be held by September next year. A schedule for organizational elections was finalized.
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