New Delhi: Following the party’s poor show in the recently concluded State Assembly elections, the chorus for making Rahul Gandhi Congress president again grew louder as several leaders and workers voiced support for him to take on the mantle of party chief.
The Congress party Sunday held a meeting of its top decision-making body, the Congress Working Committee (CWC), to introspect on the reasons for the party’s defeat in all five States.
Senior party leaders asked for Rahul Gandhi to be reinstated as president, as did party workers demonstrating outside the Congress office in Delhi.
Congress workers from around Delhi, who converged near the party office, were not allowed to enter the AICC headquarter as traffic was held up and the road outside the party office was barricaded by the police.
However, the Congress on Sunday admitted that the results of the assembly elections in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur are a cause of concern but there’s no call for a change in the party’s leadership as every member of the party expressed their trust on the leadership of Sonia Gandhi.
Reports said the meeting saw the all-too-familiar scenes of Sonia, the interim president, suggesting that she and her children were ready to do anything – read, stepping aside — if the party so wishes and the leaders, in turn, urging her to continue and reaffirming their faith in her leadership.