Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 29
Amid continuing impasse over the status of its president, the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) will meet here on June 1 to elect its leader in Parliament.
A day prior to that, the Congress will coordinate a meeting of 21 anti-BJP parties to firm up a floor strategy for the first session of the 17th Lok Sabha.
Sources do not rule out the election of Rahul Gandhi as parliamentary party leader, the post UPA chief Sonia Gandhi held in the outgoing Lok Sabha. The decision on the schedule of the CPP meeting came after daylong suspense over whether Rahul would budge from his position of stepping down as AICC president.
Rahul did not meet any leader for the fourth day in a row after he put in his papers before the Congress Working Committee, which rejected the resignation and urged the Wayanad MP to lead the party in “trying times”.
Meanwhile, state units of the Congress today began the exercise of passing resolutions, urging Rahul to continue as party president.
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