Sonia Gandhi was to appear before ED on June 8 and had sought more time from the probe agency, which has now issued a fresh summons for her to appear on June 23.
Gandhi has been given the fresh date for June 23 to appear before the Enforcement Directorate in Delhi where her statement will be recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, officials said.
Sonia Gandhi, who was summoned by the ED in a case related to the National Herald newspaper, had tested Covid positive on June 2.
The Congress chief, who was summoned by the ED in a case related to the National Herald newspaper, had tested Covid positive on June 2.
The Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee has passed a resolution to make Rahul Gandhi, the president of Congress Party.
Rahul Gandhi was earlier asked to depose on June 2 but the Lok Sabha member from Wayanad seat in Kerala sought a fresh date as he was out of the country.
The former Union minister is part of the 'G-23', a group of dissident leaders who are pressing for organizational reforms in the Grand Old Party which has suffered one electoral setback after another in the recent years.
Congress president has isolated herself and has been given requisite medical attention.
Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi received a summon from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) over the National Herald case, which was closed by the investigating agency in 2015.
Sonia Gandhi has been asked to depose before the ED on June 8 while Rahul Gandhi is understood to have been asked to appear earlier.
After ending his 25-yrs long association, in a letter to Sonia Gandhi, he said, in the recent past he has been finding himself "lacking in passion", while his own performance has been "listless and perfunctory".
Apart from the three Congress leaders including Vivek Tankha (Madhya Pradesh), P Chidambaram (Tamil Nadu) and Jairam Ramesh (Karnataka), the remaining candidates have not been given tickets from their home states for Rajya Sabha elections.
Prashant Kishor has said that he got a chance to contest 11 elections in 10 years out of which only one was lost in 2017 of UP which was with Congress.
Will Congress go to the elections under the leadership of Ashok Gehlot or Sachin Pilot or will adopt the formula of collective leadership, will be finalised soon.
At its strategy meeting in Udaipur, Congress had decided to have a political affairs committee in every state and the Centre to discuss ways forward.
Addressing the closing session of the party's three-day ‘Nav Sankalp Chintan Shivir' here, Gandhi said, “We have to accept that the Congress’ connection with the people has been broken.” “Our fight is for ideology. We have to go to the people and sit with them, the connection the party had with people has to be re-established,” he said.
The Chintan Shivir, organized in Udaipur after the gap of nine years, was attended by around 430 leaders and has prepared a "six draft resolution" which has been submitted to Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi
Congress' three-day Chintan Shivir begins today in Udaipur which will emphasize on discussions over 'communal polarization', farmers' issues and strengthening the party for the upcoming elections.
The focus of Chintan Shivir is to formulate an action plan for the party, and steps to be taken to strengthen the organisation.
In her opening remarks, Sonia Gandhi said that the deliberations will be in six groups, which will take up political, economic, social justice, farmers, youth, and organizational issues.
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