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No question of going back on decision: Sonia
New Delhi, May 19: Congress President Sonia Gandhi today made it clear that there is no question of going back on the decision not to accept prime ministership, party sources said.
New Delhi, May 19: Congress President Sonia Gandhi
today made it clear that there is no question of going back on
the decision not to accept prime ministership, party sources
said.
The sources said Gandhi had told some senior party
leaders that in the Nehru-Gandhi family when a decision is
taken it is taken and it is not changed.
Gandhi had yesterday declined to accept the post of the
prime minister listening to her "inner voice" and declared
that her decision was final even as MPs pressed asking her to
take back her decision at the CPP meeting.
Meanwhile, a process has begun in the Congress to
authorise Gandhi to take a decision on the CPP leadership that
was in the best interest of the country and party.
As part of the exercise Congress MPs from Maharashtra met at a meeting convened by Chief Minister Shushilkumar Shinde and requested Gandhi to take back her decision.
As part of the exercise Congress MPs from Maharashtra met at a meeting convened by Chief Minister Shushilkumar Shinde and requested Gandhi to take back her decision.
"Reiterating the resolution passed by the CPP requesting
Gandhi to reconsider her decision we do hereby authorise her
to take a decision in the best interest of the country and the
party," the resolution passed by them stated.
Shinde said several ministers from Maharashtra had told
him that they are submitting their resignation to him if she
did not reconsider her decision.
He said MPs had said at the CPP meeting itself that they
would resign.
Bureau Report