{"id":15708,"date":"2022-03-14T14:44:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T09:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper?p=15708"},"modified":"2022-03-14T14:44:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T09:14:59","slug":"no-change-cwc-turns-down-sonia-gandhis-proposal-to-step-down-as-party-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/2022\/03\/14\/no-change-cwc-turns-down-sonia-gandhis-proposal-to-step-down-as-party-president\/","title":{"rendered":"No Change: CWC Turns Down Sonia Gandhi\u2019s Proposal to Step Down as Party President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress&#8217; interim chief Sonia Gandhi offered to &#8220;step back&#8221; from her role as the Congress Working Committee met on Sunday for an over five-hour-long discussion on the fall-out of the recent Assembly polls but the party&#8217;s highest decision authority did not accept it.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said she indicated that she may step back if the CWC wants but the CWC did not endorse it.<\/p>\n<p>The CWC reposed faith in the leadership of Sonia Gandhi and every single member said that she should continue till organisational elections.<\/p>\n<p>Party chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said: &#8220;The deliberations of the CWC is not open and many people spoke but the CWC statement is the final conclusion of the meeting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The discussion also centred on the strengthening of the party and it was decided to hold a brain storming session soon.<\/p>\n<p>All the state Incharges reported to the CWC about the results and CWC members analysed the outcome. &#8220;It was sincere discussion,&#8221; said party General Secretary, Organisation, K.C. Venugopal.<\/p>\n<p>The party accepted the election results and resolved to fight the BJP under Sonia Gandhi&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress&#8217; interim chief Sonia Gandhi offered to &#8220;step back&#8221; from her role as the Congress Working Committee met on Sunday for an over five-hour-long discussion on the fall-out of the recent Assembly polls but the party&#8217;s highest decision authority did not accept it. Sources said she indicated that she may step back if the CWC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-stories","category-nation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15710,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15708\/revisions\/15710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}