Congress decision on Rahul Gandhi is final: Sonia

17 Jan 2014 Evaluate

Congress president Sonia Gandhi firmly told clamouring party leaders and activists that the decision not to field Rahul Gandhi as the prime ministerial candidate was final.

As Congress workers raised slogans at the Congress session here demanding that Rahul Gandhi be named the prime ministerial candidate, Sonia Gandhi got up and declared: 'A decision was taken by the CWC yesterday, and that is final. The Congress Working Committee, the party's highest decision making body, Thursday decided that Rahul Gandhi, the vice president, will head the 2014 election campaign

The Congress also said that it did not have a tradition of naming a prime ministerial candidate. The stadium reverberated with calls of 'Rahul Gandhi, Zindabad!' as the proceedings began. The slogans continued intermittently as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P. Chidambaram addressed the meet.

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