No one is above the country, but Modi calls himself great: Sonia
"The country is not the property of a few but belongs to all of us," the Congress leader asserted.
"The country is not the property of a few but belongs to all of us," the Congress leader asserted.
The 77-year-old Congress leader chose to forgo contesting another election to retain her Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh, which she had represented for five consecutive terms since 2004.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge chaired the maiden meeting of the CEC, in presence of Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and party's general secretary in charge of Organisation KC Venugopal, and other senior leaders, at the party headquarters here.
The Congress party said that the decision was taken by the party high command and Sonia Gandhi too wanted to contest from Rajasthan.
Neither the BJP fielded a third candidate, nor did the Opposition Congress try to play any politics till the end of the last day of withdrawal of nominations.
AICC chairperson and Lok Sabha MP will join Priyanka Gandhi at her newly built house in Chharabara near Shimla
While underlining that Amarinder had made very serious allegations against Sidhu by calling him anti-national, the Congress high command needs to come clean on the matter
Amarinder had written in his letter to Sonia, indicating his apprehension of instability in Punjab as a result of the political developments in the state unit of the Congress.
A source quoted a furious Amarinder Singh telling the party president Sonia Gandhi, "This kind of humiliation is enough, this is happening for the third time. I can't continue to stay in the party with this kind of humiliation,".
Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Singh Hooda and Maharashtra MLA Varsha Gaikwad have been appointed as members of the panel, which also has Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the party general secretary in-charge for Uttar Pradesh, as its member.
