Senior Congress leaders have indicated that a new party chief would be announced soon although there is no consensus yet on who would be the replacement amid the continuing chorus for Rahul Gandhi to withdraw his resignation. While Rahul has given no hint that he might reconsider his decision even once during interactions with the leaders, the party hopes he will eventually relent. But almost every senior leader in the know of internal deliberations now talks with certainty that Rahul is not going to continue as president. Some middle-rung leaders and Delhi workers started a sit-in at the party headquarters on Tuesday. A few senior leaders and former legislators and ministers came to attend the sit-in for a while, but the ill-conceived attempt was a flop show compared with similar outpourings of emotions in the past.

Source: The Telegraph July 03, 2019 01:22 UTC