CPP to meet today, likely to elect leader

Newly-elected Lok Sabha MPs of the Congress will meet for the first time on Saturday and are likely to elect the leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP).

The CPP is currently chaired by Sonia Gandhi and all 52 LokSabha MPs will be present at the meeting, besides its members in the RajyaSabha, sources said.

   

The meeting will be held in the central hall of Parliamentand MPs will also chalk out its strategy for the upcoming session ofParliament, they said.

In its first meeting after the constitution of the 17th LokSabha, the Congress MPs are also likely to elect their leader in the LowerHouse, the sources said.

They said this will be the first official meeting thatCongress president Rahul Gandhi will attend after the meeting of the party’sworking committee held on May 25, where he offered to quit as Congress chief. The CWC has already rejected his offer to resignand unanimously passed a resolution authorising him to bring structural changesin the party at all levels in a bid to revamp it.

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