Congress president Sonia Gandhi is slowly getting back into her normal political routine of meeting people including political leaders although she is yet to make a public appearance after her successful surgery in the United States recently for an undisclosed ailment.
Over the past few days, Sonia has met several party leaders including former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan, Science and Technology Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh besides party general secretaries including Digvijaya Singh and Janardan Dwivedi, sources said.
On Friday, she met DMK leader TR Baalu, who conveyed his party leader M Karunanidhi’s wishes. “It is a great opportunity to receive the blessings of a senior leader like Karunanidhi,” Baalu later quoted Sonia as saying. He said no politics was discussed.
Party leaders said Sonia’s gradual return to normal routine invalidates the talk that she would slowly withdraw from active politics to make way for son and AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi. In fact, just over a week after her return from the US, she decided to attend a Central Election Committee meeting to decide candidates for the UP polls.
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