BJP mocks Congress for selecting Sonia Gandhi as party president

Sharing a video, which is also dedicated to Congress workers, where a woman accuses someone of being slave of the mother-son,  BJP's national Information & Technology in-charge Amit Malviya tweeted: "To Congress with love..."

On Saturday night, after a marathon meeting of the Working Committee, Sonia Gandhi has been once again chosen as the new Congress president.

Sonia and her son Rahul Gandhi earlier in the day had recused themselves from the process of selection of the new party chief.

"Neither I nor Rahul are party of any of the panels. It is a mistake that our names were added to the groups," Sonia had told reporters earlier on Saturday.

As part of efforts to speed up the process of selection of the new Congress chief, the Congress working committee had earlier set up five committees to hold broader consultations on the issue with various PCC chiefs, AICC secretaries and CLP leaders even as it again urged Rahul Gandhi to reconsider his resignation from the post of party chief.

The post has been empty ever since Rahul Gandhi stepped down following the Lok Sabha elections where the Congress performed poorly.

In this year's Lok Sabha polls, the Congress managed to win only 52 seats in the 543 member Lower House of the Parliament.

The Bharatiya Janata Party won 303 seats as Prime Minister Narendra Modi returned to power for the second term.

Rahul Gandhi, who became the president of the party in 2017, resigned following the poor show in the general polls.