Sonia Gandhi has been elected the interim president of the party in the Congress Working Committee meeting held on Saturday to elect the Congress President.

Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Harish Rawat said after the meeting ended that Sonia Gandhi had been elected interim president and Rahul Gandhi's resignation from the post of president had also been accepted.

After the meeting, Congress General Secretary Venugopal and party spokesman Randeep Surjewala said that in the second meeting of the Congress Working Committee, three resolutions were unanimously passed.

1- Rahul Gandhi came as a new ray of hope and led the party. The party thanked him for this. After the defeat in the Lok Sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi resigned taking responsibility for this. His resignation has been accepted. However, he has been requested to continue to show the party the way forward.

2- The Working Committee learned the views of all the state leaders of Congress and passed a resolution that everyone wishes that Rahul should continue in his post. An appeal was made to Rahul Gandhi to withdraw his resignation, which he turned down and said that the link of responsibility should begin with him. Sonia Gandhi was appealed to take charge of the party. And he has been elected the interim president of the party until a full-time president is elected.

3- The issue of Jammu and Kashmir was discussed in the working committee and a resolution was passed that the government would be requested to send a team of opposition parties to Jammu and Kashmir to take stock of the situation.

During the meeting, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi told the media that the Kashmir issue was discussed in the meeting.

Rahul Gandhi said that in the midst of a meeting to elect the Congress President, there were reports of violence in some areas of Jammu and Kashmir and death of some people after which he was called there.

He said that "The situation in Jammu and Kashmir has deteriorated after which the issue of Jammu and Kashmir was discussed in the meeting. It is important that the Prime Minister and the government should tell the country with complete transparency what the situation is in Jammu and Kashmir?"

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