At CPP meet, Sonia Gandhi re-elected leader, Rahul says Cong will fight BJP every day

PTI, Jun 1, 2019, 12:43 PM IST

New Delhi: Sonia Gandhi has been re-elected as the Chairperson of Congress Parliamentary Party on Saturday. Former prime minister Manmohan Singh proposed her name.

All 52 Lok Sabha MPs of the Congress, besides its members in the Rajya Sabha attended the Congress Parliamentary Party meeting, held today, to elect their leader and chalk out the party’s strategy for the upcoming session of Parliament.

This was the first official meeting that Congress president Rahul Gandhi attended after the CWC meeting on May 25, where he offered to resign from the post of Congress chief. The CWC, however, rejected his offer and unanimously passed a resolution authorising him to bring structural changes in the party.

Addressing lawmakers, Rahul Gandhi said the party still has 52 lawmakers in Parliament and “will fight the BJP every day”.

“Every Congress member must remember that each one of you is fighting for the Constitution, for every person in India irrespective of the colour of his skin or belief,” he said.