The 'son' rose to the fine rank of the party chief and the old guard holding the reins of Congress for the past 19 years- Sonia Gandhi stepped down in an emotional farewell. But amid all this, erstwhile Congress president Sonia Gandhi today exuded confidence in her son. After Rahul Gandhi received a formal certificate of being elected party president, and former PM Dr Manmohn Singh's congratulatory speech, the Congress supremo gave her last speech as the party president. Our constitutional values are being attacked, our party has also lost many elections but our party will never bow down. Watch: Sonia Gandhi bids adieu to her almost two-decade long reign as Congress president

Source: India Today December 16, 2017 07:41 UTC