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NEW DELHI: All eyes are on the Congress Working Committee ( CWC ) that is meeting here on Saturday morning to select a new party chief, after Rahul Gandhi quit the post . The meeting is scheduled to take place at 11 am at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters in New Delhi.

All state unit presidents of the party, party MPs and Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leaders have been asked to attend the meeting along with a large number of state leaders.

Congress Working Committee(CWC) will meet first, then will be divided into five groups, and discussions(on next party chief) will be held with state unit leaders according to regions.

It is expected that an interim party president may be appointed in the meeting after consultation, if the members fail to come to a consensus on one name. It is also being said that a group of leaders may be authorised by the CWC to decide the new party president after consulting workers, after which a second CWC meeting will be called to approve the name.

Prominent leaders of the party, who are also the members of the CWC, including Sonia Gandhi, Dr Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will be present in the meeting.

Many names are doing rounds for the post of Congress president, but no consensus has been achieved.

Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh has batted for a young leader to head the party, while Mumbai Congress chief Milind Deora suggested the names of party leaders Jyotiraditya Scindia and Sachin Pilot.

A few leaders like Shashi Tharoor have suggested that an interim president be appointed at the earliest.



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