Evidently, it is felt that men such as these will help ease Mr. Gandhi into his new job, whenever he takes over. In addition, he said, an informal Political Group, headed by Mr. Gandhi, would be formed to respond swiftly to political developments. Interestingly, while Mr. Azad is the longest serving member of the Congress Working Committee, Mr. Kamal Nath is the seniormost MP in the current Lok Sabha, having won the maximum number of terms. But, party sources pointed out, it also meant that the new party functionaries would be a mixture of old and new faces — it would not be a clean sweep of the old guard. The Commission thereafter concluded ‘Therefore it would not be proper to conclude that Kamal Nath instigated the riots’.

Source: The Hindu June 13, 2016 19:07 UTC