Congress faux pas embarrasses Sonia

Sonia Gandhi arrived in Parliament alone on Friday morning for a Congress Parliamentary Party meeting which had been postponed, but not communicated to her.

July 25, 2014 08:46 pm | Updated 08:51 pm IST - New Delhi

Congress president Sonia Gandhi faced an embarrassing situation on Friday when she turned up for a CCP meeting and found herself alone as the meeting had been postponed - and she was unaware of it.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi faced an embarrassing situation on Friday when she turned up for a CCP meeting and found herself alone as the meeting had been postponed - and she was unaware of it.

A gaffe by Congress Parliamentary Party’s Secretariat on the schedule of the CPP meeting led party chief Sonia Gandhi to arrive in Parliament alone on Friday morning.

Since there were no members present, Ms. Gandhi, who had a scheduled meeting with President Pranab Mukherjee at 10 a.m., left for the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Party sources said that there was earlier talk of holding the CPP meeting on Friday. However, it was later postponed, a message which could not reach the Congress president in time.

The faux pas left the party red faced as it is for the first time that such a communication gap led to an embarrassing situation.

A party MP speaking on condition of anonymity said that this led to Ms. Gandhi coming for the meeting while no other MP came.

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