more-inCongress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will address a meeting of the Congress Parliamentary party on Tuesday morning. This will be the first occasion when a section of the party leadership will have a face-to-face interaction with him in a formal setting after the results of the five State elections came out on March 11. Leadership changeThe CPP met last on March 9, two days before the results came in. On that occasion too, though the outcome of the polls was still not known, party MPs had told him that it was time he formally took over as president and got working on a plan for the next two years. The results only underscore the need for urgency on the part of the leadership to devise a way forward, party sources said.

Source: The Hindu March 27, 2017 19:07 UTC