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Congress holds orientation programme for new MPs; Sonia, Rahul attend
New Delhi, July 8 (UNI): Amid the crisis over the leadership issue, Congress on Monday held an orientation meeting for the newly elected MPs at party's War Room in the national capital.
The meeting, which lasted more than an hour, was attended by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, who resigned from the party president post recently and leaders like P. Chidambaram, Jairam Ramesh and Jyotiraditya Scindia among others.
It is learned that party's Lok Sabha leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and Kodikunnil Suresh addressed the newly elected MPs.
"The orientation meeting was to introduce the parliamentary system and how to effectively raise the issues of affected people," said a senior leader.
Among the 52 Congress MPs in the 17th Lok Sabha, 31 of them have been elected first time.
According to party leaders, after Mr Gandhi's resignation, efforts to convene the meeting of party's highest decision making body, the Congress Working Committee (CWC) soon to choose a new chief is being speeded up.
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