 "Sonia Gandhi calls meeting of Congress CMs on June 9")
Congress president Sonia Gandhi has called a meeting of Chief Ministers of all the states where the grand old party is in power on June 9.
According to reports, the meeting will deliberate on the formulation of a political strategy to to take on the NDA Government at the Centre for its attitude towards Congress-ruled and other non-BJP states.
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Among those attending the meeting will be Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi as well as senior leaders and general secretaries of the party.
Congress is in power in nine states: Kerala, Assam, Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Manipur; with the first two scheduled to go to polls next year.
This is the first such meeting called by the Congress after the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
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