NEW DELHI: Sonia Gandhi will remain Congress president for now, the party decided today after a crucial seven-hour meeting that began with Gandhi announcing she wanted to be relieved of the job and the party should start looking for her replacement after an explosive letter written by 23 top leaders calling for “a full-time, visible leadership”.
Sonia Gandhi reportedly said in her closing remarks that she held “no ill-will” towards anyone in the party, a remark intended at the dissent-letter writers. “I am hurt but they are my colleagues, bygones are bygones, let us work together,” she said, ending the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting on a note of conciliation.
