After nearly 23 Congress leaders wrote to the interim chief Sonia Gandhi seeking the party’s revival, several reports suggested that the 73-year-old veteran leader has offered to step down at the party meet scheduled for 24 August and asked for senior leaders to find her replacement.
The reports have however been deemed by the party as untrue.
Senior Congress leaders – including former chief ministers, sitting members of parliament (MP) and former union ministers – have written a letter to Sonia Gandhi asking for changes in the party, arguing that the party’s revival is “a national imperative”, reported The Indian Express.
Sonia, in her response to the letter, reportedly said that all the leaders should get together and find a new chief as she does not want to carry out the responsibilities any further, Hindustan Times (HT) reported.
However, Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala told ANI that the reports floating in the media over her resignation are false.