Proud to follow on the footsteps of Sushma Swaraj, says Jaishankar
Newly-inducted Foreign Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar said he was honoured for the responsibility, and referred to the work by his predecessor Sushma Swaraj.
"My first tweet," he wrote on Twitter. "Thank you all for the best wishes! Honoured to be given this responsibility. Proud to follow on the footsteps of @SushmaSwaraj ji," he wrote. The Minister also responded to congratulatory messages from his counterparts in France, Indonesia, Australia, Latvia, among others.
Sonia Gandhi to continue as CPP
Congress on Saturday elected Sonia Gandhi as the leader of Congress Parliamentary Party for another term.
Ms. Gandhi thanks the 12.13 crore voters for reposing faith in the Congress Party, said party Communications chief Randeep Singh Surjewala on Twitter.
Party president Rahul Gandhi thanked the voters and Congress workers, adding that every Congress member must remember that each one of you is fighting for the Constitution, for every person in India irrespective of the color of his skin or belief.
Congress Parliamentary Party meet begins
The first meeting of newly elected Congress Lok Sabha MPs began at the Central Hall of Parliament on Saturday and they were likely to elect a new leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP).
The CPP is currently chaired by Sonia Gandhi.
All 52 Lok Sabha MPs of the Congress are present at the meeting, besides its members in the Rajya Sabha, sources said.
Besides electing a new leader, the MPs will chalk out the party’s strategy for the upcoming session of Parliament, they said.
They will also elect the Congress leader in Lok Sabha.
This will be the first official meeting that Congress president Rahul Gandhi will attend after the May 25 meeting of the party’s working committee, where he had offered to quit as Congress chief.
The CWC has already rejected his offer to resign and unanimously passed a resolution authorising him to bring structural changes in the party at all levels in a bid to revamp it.
- PTI