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Process to elect next party president set in motion: Congress

The Congress on Saturday said that Sonia Gandhi has made organisational changes after authorisation from the party's working committee and has set in motion the process of election of the next party president by constituting an election authority. Asked about the organisational changes made by Gandhi and the subsequent reported statements by some leaders who had written to her over party reforms, Congress' chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said he had not seen a single statement by any Congress leader on the issue and cannot comment on that. On whether the organisational changes had Rahul Gandhi's imprint, he said Rahul Gandhi was unanimously elected in an AICC session, but post the 2019 verdict he chose to take moral responsibility and resigned. "Crores and crores of Congress workers and unanimously all leaders including the ones that you mentioned in the meeting of the CWC expressed complete confidence in the leadership of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and in fact some of them

Sonia removes Azad, Soni, Vora and Kharge as AICC general secretaries

She also set up a special committee comprising senior leaders A K Antony, Ahmed Patel, and Ambika Soni to assist her in party matters

Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury appointed West Bengal Congress chief by Sonia Gandhi

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday appointed Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury as the new president of the West Bengal Congress, the party said

Dissent letter row: Amarinder backing Rahul may help him lead Cong again

Amarinder strongly backing Rahul in the dissent letter row may help him lead the Congress again in the 2022 Assembly elections

The man who could be CM: What makes K C Venugopal so important in Congress

Who is K C Venugopal, where did he come from, and where is he going?

KC Venugopal: What makes the leader from Kerala important in the Congress

Valued by both Rahul and Sonia Gandhi, his sights are set on the chief minister's job in Kerala and he may make it there eventually

Those who still have a grudge are free to talk to Sonia Gandhi: Congress

More than a week after the letter stoked a controversy in the CWC meeting, where the dissenters were cornered by the loyalists, the issue has not died down as the dissenters are now speaking publicly

No urgency to have an elected Congress president: Salman Khurshid

Khurshid said the leaders who have written to Sonia Gandhi always had access to her and could have approached her rather than writing to her

Not one concern raised in our letter addressed in CWC meeting: Kapil Sibal

The signatories of the letter have been at loggerheads and termed dissenters within the party by Gandhi family loyalists

Freedom of expression under threat, democracy being destroyed: Sonia Gandhi

Speaking at the foundation laying ceremony of new Assembly building of Chhattisgarh, Gandhi alleged that "powers" that want people to fight are spreading poison of hatred in the country

Congress must 'target the BJP with surgical strikes', not its own: Sibal

Former union minister Jitin Prasada called a 'traitor' by party colleague in UP district

Shiv Sena hits out at Cong leaders who wrote letter to Sonia Gandhi

Shiv Sena alleged that the letter written by 23 senior Congress leaders to Sonia Gandhi over their demand for a "full time" party president was a "conspiracy to finish off Rahul Gandhi's leadership"

Sonia musters seven CMs' support against Centre over NEET, JEE exams

The chief ministers may file review petition against SC order on the exams, accuse Centre of being oblivious to the health crisis holding them could cause

Refusal of GST compensation to states is Centre's betrayal: Sonia Gandhi

Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi hit out at the Centre and said that refusal to pay GST compensation to States is nothing short of betrayal on the part of the Narendra Modi government.

Sonia to chair meeting with Congress CMs, Mamata Banerjee, Uddhav Thackeray

Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi will speak to the CMs to discuss the pending GST share, and the NEET and JEE examination issue.

Sonia reaches out to Mamata, Uddhav, Soren on issue of GST compensation

Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday reached out to the chief ministers of West Bengal, Maharashtra and Jharkhand on the issue of compensation to states

Sorry if we hurt Sonia's feelings; never questioned her leadership: Moily

"If we have hurt her (Sonia Gandhi's) feelings, we are sorry for it," M Veerappa Moily, one of the leaders who sought organisational reforms, said asserting they never questioned her leadership

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