Congress president Sonia Gandhi has resigned her post as the interim president of the Congress Party. According to the media reports, Gandhi responding to a letter written by a group of party leaders, that they must come together and find a new chief, and that she does not want to carry out the responsibilities anymore.
She said that she was not interested in leading the party, even when the Congress Working Committee (CWC) on August 10 requested her to take charge again, the daily reported.It is learnt that Gandhi had accepted the position after a lot of persuasion.
The letter, sent earlier this month, is signed by leaders like Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma, Manish Tewari, Raj Babbar, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Kapil Sibal, Milind Deora, Prithviraj Chavan and Arvinder Singh Lovely, as reported by another portal.
