Sonia Gandhi's meeting with President Pranab Mukherjee ends, it lasted more than an hour.
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What is slated in TV channel soundbytes as a 'courtesy call' lasts for one hour. Wow, what a courtesy!!
What did SoniaG and Pranab Babu discuss?
Should we take the PTI report seriously that the issue was about LoP?
Could she not seek a meeting with Sumitra Mahajanji? Surely, she knew that Pranab Babu does not decide on issues of salaried personnel or Cabinet rank or even about a GOI appointment, a status she had as Chairperson NAC.
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Sonia Gandhi meets President Pranab Mukherjee for LoP status for Congress
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Sonia Gandhi meets President Pranab Mukherjee
Sonia Gandhi meets President Pranab MukherjeeCongress President Sonia Gandhi met President Pranab Mukherjee in the backdrop of the UPA pitching for Leader of Opposition (LoP) status for her party in Lok Sabha. Gandhi, who had on Monday made a strong pitch for Congress being given the post of Leader of Opposition, held a meeting with party MPs in Lok Sabha on Tuesday morning.
The meeting came after United Progressive Alliance (UPA) MPs decided to write to Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan seeking an immediate decision on the issue. Congress has 44 seats in the 543-member Lok Sabha.
The party has already asserted that it would exercise all options to ensure a "democratically correct, logical conclusion" on the issue and has not ruled out the option of approaching the court on the matter.
Sources close to Gandhi, however, said that her meeting with the President was a "courtesy call". Gandhi had been calling on Mukherjee regularly ever since the former Finance Minister in UPA II government became President in July 2012.