New Delhi, September 16: Rahul Gandhi on Friday attended his first ever Congress core group meeting. Congress president Sonia Gandhi, however, did not attend the CCG meet.
Rendered out of action for over a month by her illness, Sonia Gandhi on Thursday made her first public appearance before a group of top party leaders bringing cheer to them and to the rank and file.
Gandhi, who had undergone a surgery in the US last month, was her usual self yesterday, chairing the Central Election Committee meeting that discussed names of 98 candidates and finalised 70 for Assembly Elections in Uttar Pradesh.
It was her first such interaction with party leaders after she arrived here on September 08 after having undergone surgery for an undisclosed ailment in the US on August 04.
—–Agencies