Sonia Gandhi was on Saturday appointed as interim president of the Congress at a crucial meeting of the party's working committee here, after Rahul Gandhi refused pleas by partymen to take back his resignation.
The announcement was made Saturday night after Congress Working Committee (CWC) accepted Rahul Gandhi's resignation at its second meeting of the day.
The party's highest decision-making body banked on the experience and tested leadership of Sonia Gandhi, to lead it in what the CWC described as "trying times".
She returned as party president almost 20 months after making way for his son Rahul Gandhi in December 2017. Sonia has led the party for almost 19 years before she quit the post citing health reasons.
She returned to the helm of the party two months after the Congress suffered a massive drubbing in the Lok Sabha polls under Rahul Gandhi's leadership.
The CWC met twice during the day to find a successor to Rahul Gandhi and Sonia's name was decided after hours of ...
