GUWAHATI: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday offered to step down from her post as the interim party chief at the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting that got underway amid divisions in the party over the leadership issue.
Sonia Gandhi's letter was read by party General Secretary (Organisation) K.C. Venugopal at the meeting of the highest decision making body of the Congress.
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The meeting comes in the wake of a letter by 23 leaders to the Congress President seeking sweeping changes in the party even as Chief Ministers and state Congress units expressed solidarity with the Gandhi family.
With many Congress leaders openly demanding Rahul Gandhi to be brought back as the party chief without any further delay, the party made it clear that the CWC meeting will discuss the issue.
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A large section of the CWC, including Manmohan Singh, A K Antony and Rahul Gandhi, are learnt to have questioned the timing of the letter and terming its leak to the media as unfortunate.