{"id":312800,"date":"2019-06-01T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312800"},"modified":"2019-06-01T06:32:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T06:32:00","slug":"sonia-gandhi-elected-as-congress-parliamentary-party-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sonia-gandhi-elected-as-congress-parliamentary-party-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonia Gandhi elected as Congress Parliamentary Party leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-312801 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sonia-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/sonia-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/sonia-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/sonia-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/sonia-696x523.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/sonia-559x420.jpg 559w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/sonia.jpg 719w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sonia Gandhi was on Saturday elected as the chairperson of Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) at the meeting of party MPs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh proposed her name.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The meeting was attended by the party\u2019s 52 newly elected Lok Sabha MPs and Rajya Sabha members, reports said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala in a tweet said, &#8220;Smt. Sonia Gandhi elected as the leader of Congress Parliamentary Party! She says, \u2018we thank the 12.13 Cr voters for reposing faith in the Congress Party\u2019.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Speaking at the CPP meeting, Congress president Rahul Gandhi also thanked the voters and Congress workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Every Congress member must remember that each one of you is fighting for the Constitution, for every person in India irrespective of the color of his skin or belief,&#8221; Rahul Gandhi was quoted as saying in a tweet by Surjewala.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The meeting came a week after party president Rahul Gandhi had expressed his desire to quit from his post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Numerous senior leaders of the party had visited Rahul\u2019s residence in Delhi and urged him not to step down. However, Rahul has been adamant on his decision.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonia Gandhi was on Saturday elected as the chairperson of Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) at the meeting of party MPs. According to the sources, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh proposed her name. The meeting was attended by the party\u2019s 52 newly elected Lok Sabha MPs and Rajya Sabha members, reports said. Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[11425,1701],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312802,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312800\/revisions\/312802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}