New Delhi, June 1:Sonia Gandhi was elected leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party here on Saturday.
Earlier, the first meeting of the newly elected Congress Lok Sabha MPs began at the Central Hall of Parliament.
The CPP was earlier too chaired by Sonia Gandhi.All 52 Lok Sabha MPs of the Congress were present at the meeting, besides its members in the Rajya Sabha, sources said.
The MPs would also chalk out the party’s strategy for the upcoming session of Parliament, they said.They will also elect the Congress leader in the Lok Sabha.
This will be the first official meeting that Congress president Rahul Gandhi will attend after the May 25 meeting of the party’s working committee, where he had offered to quit as Congress chief.
The CWC has already rejected his offer to resign and unanimously passed a resolution authorising him to bring structural changes in the party at all levels in a bid to revamp it. PTI
