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CWC meet: Sonia Gandhi to continue as interim chief of Congress

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | Mar 14, 2022, at 02:45 am

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New Delhi: Sonia Gandhi will continue to be the interim chief of the Congress, announced the party after its working committee's meeting on Sunday.

"The CWC unanimously reaffirmed faith in leadership of Congress President Sonia Gandhi. CWC requests Sonia Gandhi to lead from the front," KC Venugopal said while addressing a press conference.

LIVE: Congress Working Committee Briefing by Shri @kcvenugopalmp and Shri @rssurjewala at the AICC HQ. https://t.co/Io80jAhesm
— Congress (@INCIndia) March 13, 2022

After being decimated in five state elections, the Congress's top decision-making body, the Congress Working Committee or CWC, met here on Sunday.

The Congress has been completely wiped out in state election results declared on Thursday, losing Punjab, one of the last major states under its control, to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

It also failed to put up a strong fight in three other states where it had hoped for a comeback - Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur.

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In Uttar Pradesh too, where senior leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra heavily campaigned, the Congress got just 2 seats out of 403, a loss of 5 over the last polls. The party got just 2.4 per cent of the vote.

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