New Delhi, October 25: Opting for status quo, Congress lastnight announced Ashok Chavan and Bhupinder Singh Hodda will lead the party’s legislature groups in Maharashtra and Haryana respectively paving the way for their becoming Chief Ministers in the two states where the party stormed back to power.
The decisions to choose Chavan and Hooda to head CLPs was taken by Congress President Sonia Gandhi after she held several rounds of consultations lasting well past midnight with senior party leaders who as central observers interacted with the newly-elected party MLAs in the last two days eliciting their views on the leadership issue.
Emerging from the long-drawn confabulations at 10 Janpath, the official residence of Gandhi, senior party leader A K Antony, one of the observers for Maharashtra, told mediapersons that 51-year-old Ashok Chavan has been chosen by the Congress President to be the CLP leader in Maharashtra.
–PTI