Govt formation exercise to begin tomorrow: Cong

Congress will begin its government formation exercise tomorrow with the election of Manmohan Singh as the leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP).

The CPP meeting has been slated tomorrow at 11 am.

"The chairperson of the parliamentary party would be elected first and then the leader of the parliamentary party will be elected in the CPP meeting," AICC General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi told reporters here.

Congress had already decided that Sonia Gandhi would be elected as the Chairperson and Singh as the leader of the Parliamentary Party.

Dwivedi said both the chairperson and the leader of the CPP will address the newly elected MPs in the central hall of Parliament during the CPP meeting.

He said the meeting of the UPA will be held on May 20 in which all pre-poll alliance partners have been invited.

"The discussion about the next step (government formation) will be taken after the UPA meeting," Dwivedi said adding that after the CPP meeting, the party will stake claim to form the government.