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.
The Telangana CM-designate invited Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) chairperson Sonia Gandhi and top party leaders – Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra – to the swearing-in ceremony tomorrow.
Chief Minister-designate A Revanth Reddy will be administered the oath by the governor at 1:04 pm at Lal Bahadur Stadium.
Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday said that she will probably visit Telangana for the oath-taking ceremony of Revanth Reddy as first Congress chief minister.
At the launch of a felicitation volume on Kharge’s 50 years in electoral politics, the CPP leader alleged, “Those in power are subverting or demolishing all those institutions, systems and principles by which India has thrived since our Independence.”
Prasad said, “The Congress Party not only controls the party legacy or the legacy of the freedom movement, it controls the property legacy of the party as well. They treat whatever movable or immovable property is there in the name of the party. as their own”